I wonder if the us has a means of protecting the Starlink satellites?

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.

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toomuchtodo 3 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 an hour 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?