| ▲ | Shooting Starlink: The "no limits" partnership between Russia and China(theins.press) |
| 7 points by uxhacker 4 hours ago | 6 comments |
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| ▲ | uxhacker 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | ben_w 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | uxhacker 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wonder if the us has a means of protecting the Starlink satellites? | | |
| ▲ | ben_w 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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/... | | |
| ▲ | uxhacker 4 minutes ago | parent [-] | | So they can be disabled from the ground? Why has russia not thought of that? Is that why Starlink is actually concerned about them been used by Ukraine? |
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