You guys on this site are much smarter than me so I might be asking a dumb question. Can Big Tech/China shut down satellites to crush information flow. With all this talk about a meteor storm, this would seem like the ideal time to shut down satellites.
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No. Most traffic us terrestrial. Taking out GPS would mess up timing that woikd take down or slow down some internet traffic after the holdover clocks lose time.
Most Internet traffic is on fiber optics, they can handle a lot more than comm sats these days but anything can be sabotaged. Sats are more for broadcast applications, plus many niche areas.
You can't move the sat to anywhere safer up there. Hydrazine delta-V would be limited or too valuable to waste on this, and ion propulsion would be too slow.
There are a lot of meteor storms throughout the year, the probability of a strike is very low because there is a whole lot of empty space out there.
I expect the Deep State to order some of the main exchanges to stage a major fault condition, or a major network operator can inject bad routing into major or infrastructure routes (via BGP or something like that.) There have been cases of other countries messing with traffic routing, whether accidental or malicious.
BGP? That’s TOTALLY secure and could NEVER be weaponized. (Heavy sarcasm)
I think space weapons to this point are to park a bomb next to the "bad guy" and push the red button.
Yes, but remember a good 80-90% of the internet is hardwired.