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Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

  • @geriksonEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Ugh apparently it won’t stop Starships from fucking off to Mars

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome#Implications

    However, even a catastrophic Kessler scenario at LEO would pose minimal risk for launches continuing past LEO, or satellites travelling at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or geosynchronous orbit (GEO).

    OTOH the faster Musk fucks off the better so …

    • Jonathan Hendry
      4•1 year ago

      @gerikson

      “would pose minimal risk for launches continuing past LEO”

      I suppose so, and yet you could say the same about aircraft flying over the launch site on launch day. A collision is unlikely due to the speed of the rocket and the short time it would be at aircraft altitudes.

      But I’m pretty sure they still don’t want anyone flying over the launch pad.