NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Astronomy and Celestial Navigation
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 15:41 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 15:41 -0400
Red wrote: > I find it easy to imagine. Satellites can be knocked out very easily once you > have launch capability, and all sorts of small players and commercial > companies > now either HAVE that, or shortly will. I can easily imagine someone with a > grudge hiring a private launch of an ostensibly innocent satellite, which in > turns releases or becomes a debris field that does massive damages. (The GPS > satellites are armored, but how extensive the armor is, is classified.) You speak of a brute-force attack on the satellites. In fact the signals are relatively weak, and therefore targets for jamming. Bill