7 pointsby uxhacker4 hours ago2 comments

uxhacker4 hours ago
The story is a joint joint investigation with Le Monde and Der Spiegel:
Der Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de/ ausland/china-und-russland-recherchen-zeigen-ausmass-der-militaerkooperation-a-46fa7894-0b2c-411b-ba21-cc7c6b053c3f Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/m- le-mag/article/2026/07/09/entre-pekin-et-moscou-de-tres-secrets-forums-de-cooperation-militaire_6722048_4500055.html
ben_w4 hours ago
Extremely obvious they would consider this, to the extent that it's one of the independent arguments against valuing Starlink as if it has a shot at being a global monopoly. Ditto space-based data centres.
- uxhacker2 hours ago
  I wonder if the us has a means of protecting the Starlink satellites?
  - ben_w2 hours ago
    From what I've seen, I believe the only possible option is threatening to use the US military against anyone who attacked Starlink.
    Space is hard place to attack in the first place, but even harder to defend against attacks from those who can reach it.
  - toomuchtodoan hour ago
    I think it’s unlikely. At LEO constellation altitude, you could use ground to space energy weapons (~3-10MW) to disable these satellites, no on orbit anti satellite capability required.
    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1544/1/...