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Attacking GPS satellites
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 20:57 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 4, 20:57 EDT
Jared, you 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.)" The armor is almost certainly irrelevant. But it is not all easy to launch debris into the right orbits. These satellites occupy unusual, high orbital positions, and it would be very hard to do this surreptitiously, if at all. I do think there are ways to attack the GPS satellites using other technological approaches. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
