#StarNet system with technology such as #laser communication and #AI : #China 🇨🇳 has been developing numerous alternative #AntiSatellite 🛰️ technologies, including #microwaves that can jam communications or #burn 🔥 electronic components.
#Lasers for blinding or damaging satellites, nano-sats that can be launched in huge numbers to cripple bigger satellites, and cyber weapons to hack into the #satellite #communication #network. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3178939/china-military-needs-defence-against-potential-starlink-threat

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#SciFi ?

#StarNet system with technology such as #laser communication and #AI :
#China 🇨🇳 has been developing numerous alternative #AntiSatellite 🛰️ technologies, including #microwaves that can jam communications or #burn 🔥 electronic components.
#Lasers for blinding or damaging satellites, nano-sats that can be launched in huge numbers to cripple bigger satellites, and cyber weapons to hack into the #satellite #communication #network. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3178939/china-military-needs-defence-against-potential-starlink-threat

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With every new piece of discarded launch hardware, every fragment of a destructive #antisatellite test, and every bit of debris shed from spacecraft in increasingly congested #LEO #space, the risk of a loss-of-life incident in space grows.

https://www.space.com/russian-space-debris-cancels-nasa-spacewalk