There is the matter of space debris, which is already a problem. If you’re going to attack satellites to disable them you want to capture them in a decaying orbit.
Or, hear me out, nukes. Explode a nuke far away enough that the shockwave doesn’t matter (not like it matters much in space anyway) and use the EMP to knock the satellite out.
Some orbits are quicker than others. Cloudsat was recently retired, and was lowered to a graveyard orbit which decays a lot more quickly. As I understand it, our collective space programs have made a bit of a mess of operational orbits and we need to think about cleaning up debris while also mitigating any future additions to the debris field.
There is the matter of space debris, which is already a problem. If you’re going to attack satellites to disable them you want to capture them in a decaying orbit.
Or, hear me out, nukes. Explode a nuke far away enough that the shockwave doesn’t matter (not like it matters much in space anyway) and use the EMP to knock the satellite out.
Nukes solve a lot of problems.
I feel like you have the same misconceptions that people do about the garbage island.
The pieces of space debris are very far apart, so detonating a nuke would only catch a very small amount
Yeah, you need more nukes then. Problem solved.
That they do
Hell yeah brother
pfff just use the massive amounts of photones to push it into a higher graveyard orbit
All low earth orbits are decaying without periodic adjustments. If you disable a satellite, it will eventually burn up in the atmosphere.
Some orbits are quicker than others. Cloudsat was recently retired, and was lowered to a graveyard orbit which decays a lot more quickly. As I understand it, our collective space programs have made a bit of a mess of operational orbits and we need to think about cleaning up debris while also mitigating any future additions to the debris field.