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U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Re: U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

pvarangot wrote: post #28

This is propaganda, the US is the only military with operational space drones and space planes. They have the technology and enough budget to defend military and commercial satellites and just looking for political support to actually do so. The CCP military may be ahead in number of rockets but the US is way ahead in number of spy satellites by a far margin and can also commission civilian capabilities for this.

What space plane does the US have? What counts as a drone? Satellites can be steered, are those drones? The article states that Russia is trailing US spy satellites with their own. You make no sense.

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Post by abledon »

jand wrote: post #43

This article presents some thoughts on how, if and when the US should or could strike (back) in space after summarizing the alleged current space combat capability developments of other nations. You can easily replace "US" with other nations and the target audience with their citizens and allies. By this logic, every nation needs to ramp up space combat capabilities, because their perceived or real enemies could also…

but will the next Petrov 'candidate' grow up on a diet of tiktok videos?

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Post by dsjoerg »

pvarangot wrote: post #28

This is propaganda, the US is the only military with operational space drones and space planes. They have the technology and enough budget to defend military and commercial satellites and just looking for political support to actually do so. The CCP military may be ahead in number of rockets but the US is way ahead in number of spy satellites by a far margin and can also commission civilian capabilities for this.

If you can substantiate your claims they would be interesting.

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Post by bigyellow »

A computer in another country is running SSH brute-force attempts and random port scans (which hit pretty much every IPv4 address at least once an hour) - quick, ask for several more billions in funding and claim Russia/China is behind it - your wish will be granted without a second thought. Man, why is this propaganda on the front page of a "hacker" website?

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Post by HideousKojima »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #61
pvarangot wrote: post #28

This is propaganda, the US is the only military with operational space drones and space planes. They have the technology and enough budget to defend military and commercial satellites and just looking for political support to actually do so. The CCP military may be ahead in number of rockets but the US is way ahead in number of spy satellites by a far margin and can also commission civilian capabilities for this.

What space plane does the US have? What counts as a drone? Satellites can be steered, are those drones? The article states that Russia is trailing US spy satellites with their own. You make no sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

That probably?

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Post by temp_sat_123 »

pvarangot wrote: post #28

This is propaganda, the US is the only military with operational space drones and space planes. They have the technology and enough budget to defend military and commercial satellites and just looking for political support to actually do so. The CCP military may be ahead in number of rockets but the US is way ahead in number of spy satellites by a far margin and can also commission civilian capabilities for this.

Rockets and spaceplanes are not the only threat model. We build commercial satellites that have to contend with jamming attacks and other intentional interference. I'm not one to carry water for the military industrial complex - they hype up threats for more money all the time (see: Hypersonics) - but I can assure you that these attacks are occurring right now.

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Post by fidesomnes »

pvarangot wrote: post #47
friedman23 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The conclusion that this is propaganda does not follow from the facts you stated. Anyway, I suspect everything an active US general says is in some form propaganda but the thing that matters is if his statement is true or false. And nothing you've said makes me believe that this general is lying about US satellites being attacked in some manner daily.

Of course he's not lying, the thing is it's his responsibility that they don't get attacked and he already has the tools to deal with it at his disposal and is not in any way explaining what new thing they need. Also besides the actual stupid test of firing a rocket at a satellite the US military flew and tested technology that's capable of satellite warfare multiple times but "it's classified", they are just being m…

welcome to you're an idiot list.

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Post by willcipriano »

fallingknife wrote: post #34
boomboomsubban wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I don't think one guy saying they're launching non-damaging attacks on satellites is worth making the lives of over a billion people worse.

If retaliation for an attack makes the lives of 1 billion Chinese worse, then that's on them for attacking, not on us for responding. A space force general is not "one guy saying"

>A space force general is not "one guy saying"

Yeah it was probably the CIA or another similarly reputable agency[0] that actually made the report.

[0]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/cia-employ...

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Post by ianbicking »

A bit of an aside to the exact article, but it makes me think about all the software attacks that might be made on satellites. It's kind of like they have an open port, small deployment, and no way to physically reset the machine. It seems inevitable that they have many serious and exploitable security flaws...

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

HideousKojima wrote: post #65
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What space plane does the US have? What counts as a drone? Satellites can be steered, are those drones? The article states that Russia is trailing US spy satellites with their own. You make no sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 That probably?

Was going to say that the definition of spaceplane is iffy. It needs a rocket to reach orbit. That's the only one that came to mind.
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