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Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's essentially impossible for anyone to disable the Starlink network by "taking out satellites" through physical means. There aren't enough anti satellite missiles in the world to make a dent, it would cost trillions to manufacture enough, and SpaceX can launch satellites faster than anyone could manufacture interceptors anyway. And Kessler syndrome is impossible at the altitudes Starlink uses. Cyberattack is the o…

>>There aren't enough anti satellite missiles in the world to make a dent, it would cost trillions to manufacture enough Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites.

>Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites.

Um, no. Not even vaguely remotely. "Thousands of satellites" is a lot by historical human space standards, but compare that to the number of cars you see every day and then remember these are spread out over an area bigger then the surface of the entire planet. Don't be fooled by the simulation maps you can find online, where the satellites and tracks are shown thousands of times bigger then they would be to scale because otherwise they couldn't be seen. They are very, very far apart. Even on the ground, "a few big nukes" wouldn't do diddly. And nukes do less, not more, damage in space. A lot of the damage enhancement effects of nukes comes from their interaction with atmosphere. In a vacuum, it's only direct radiation which falls by the square of the distance, and satellites are of course designed to handle plenty of thermal and ionizing radiation all the time already by virtue of being designed for space. But Starlink sats aren't so high that Kessler syndrome is a concern either, there's plenty of atmospheric drag to bring debris down without active boosting.

GP is correct and I don't understand the downvotes: as far as physical resilience goes the Starlink constellation is a pretty damn hard target on an absolute basis, even before we get into the geopolitics of some country trying to shoot down US property that is also a US strategic asset.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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So, if (just spitballing here) Russia were to have wanted to take out Starlink in order to handicap Ukrainian operations, and they didn't want to do something as visible as actually taking out the satellites, what would be the most likely way for them to have done it? And how would we be able to check if that's what happened? No idea if this is plausible at all, just raising the question for anyone who knows more abo…

Doesn’t the military use a different starlink or something ?

If not and this was a cyber attack the this an attack on the USA.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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Curious as to what could cause a global outage like that. The system consists of birds in the air and individual ground stations. There's no big choke point that I'm aware of that could cause the whole shebang to go dark. Am I missing something here?

The usual dark triad: DNS, BGP and IPv6

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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I'm not saying there's a connection to the UK telco outage but the timing is rather coincidental.

Given the ongoing expansion of cellular Starlink, it could make sense.

https://www.theverge.com/news/712546/starlink-powered-t-sate...

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a non-zero probability that Musk personally tried to use Grok to make and roll out a software update.

Unless Musk is outside the country, the outage started in the late morning [1]. If this happened at 3AM, your hypothesis would be more likely. [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacexs-starlink-hit-by-major-out...

Took ketamine, went blackout at 3Am, told hself future me can handle yhis, scheduled deployment in morning. Future self woke up this afternoon completely unaware.

Re: Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

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post #108

(Not necessarily related, but interesting nonetheless) Russian Nuclear Sabotage In Space Could Blast U.S., SpaceX Satellites https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2025/07/23/rus...

Looks like UK mobile networks might be having global issues as well, very strange timing.
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