tbone902

This is the beginning of Reagan's Star Wars...

The question is whether they will use hypersonic interceptors: https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/space-based-missile-defe...

such as the SpaceX employees at Castelion are building: https://www.castelion.com/team

Or megawatt lasers.. https://breakingdefense.com/2014/05/laser-weapons-lower-expe...

Unless you think you know better than the National Academy of Sciences. Cost of launch is the only recognized limitation (in 2012)

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13189/chapter/4?term=...

Your question about delta-V is answered in that same report a few pages above.

> no military background, no political background and no aerospace engineering background

You're presuming a lot there.

Why not use Swarm? ( https://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2022/07/30/swarm-vs-i... )

(other than they're now owned by Musk, known for trying to escalate nuclear war.. https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/1fy10k1/tracking... )

Wow(!) I expected a Musk meme, not an unravelling of his entire history.