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Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war: report

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Re: Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war: report

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You could say the same thing about any military hardware during a peace-time economy. It’s not a matter if it exists, it’s a matter if the relevant knowledge exists in domestic/friendly industrial base. The U.S. is making more satellites than the rest of the world combined right now.

It's also whether it matters if you have people available to replace the things. Any conflict that gets to the point of taking out satellites will almost certainly trigger Kessler syndrome, at which point whether you can launch any more satellites becomes moot.

Re: Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war: report

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>> Somehow I doubt that after a war with China, satellites would be high on the priority list of things that need rebuilding. If GPS goes down, most of our communications will go down. A lot of other stuff falls from there. I suspect we'd be OK after a brief adjustment, but it would be very disruptive.

Did you mean “transportation”? Communications networks are not reliant on GNSS.

A lot of things rely on GNSS for time synchronization, even if they're not moving....

Re: Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war: report

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you mean “transportation”? Communications networks are not reliant on GNSS.

A lot of things rely on GNSS for time synchronization, even if they're not moving....

These are bizarre assertions. GNSS is one way to navigate, and GNSS is one way to synchronize time-of-day. Communications networks are full of devices that don't have, or use, any GPS receivers at all. NTP, WiFi, DOCSIS, DSL, leased lines, servers, core routers, switches, desktops and laptops are all things that won't even notice that GPS was unavailable.
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