Shooting down satellites is still a very hard, expensive problem. If you have more than a few, chances are nobody will work that hard, without a very good reason.
Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars
by _hyn3 on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:20AM
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Still expensive, but now a solved problem. Funny how everyone's focused on satellites and nobody's talking about the society-ending EMP that would probably be triggered here on Terra though.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/there-path-counter-russias-spa...
I agree it can be done, but it's still a hard, expensive problem to actually make happen.
Not just the ground stations! If we're talking about an attack, the attacker very well might have the capability to shoot down the satellites themselves, too.
AM radio is portable and decentralized. Sure, it can be jammed, but so can pretty much anything else that requires you to send information through the air.