Re:The Damage to Lunar Orbiting Spacecraft Caused by the Eje...
by dredmorbius on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:54AM
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The mechanism would loft a cloud of particles with a wide range of trajectories through a notoriously uneven gravitational field.
The odds that a sufficient fraction of particles would remain in orbit for long enough to make routine operations in low lunar orbit or on the surface itself seems ... plausible.
And of course, the situation could be compounded by multiple burns and/or at multiple points on the surface, at a somewhat increased cost to the attacker.
The odds that a sufficient fraction of particles would remain in orbit for long enough to make routine operations in low lunar orbit or on the surface itself seems ... plausible.
And of course, the situation could be compounded by multiple burns and/or at multiple points on the surface, at a somewhat increased cost to the attacker.