Thanks for the clarification. My prior experience was some exposure to the Teledesic project, operating with an antenna footprint of 700 km2. These footprints move along at orbital speed (~7.8 km/sec for low Earth orbit), so dwell times are probably measured in a matter of a few minutes at most. There will be considerable packet switching to connect with a ground terminal.
I looked up Starlink to get some sense of the downlink distribution and support and it is pretty amazing. A complete terminal is priced to be available to commercial or industrial entities. A lesser capability is potentially available to those who can afford it, so links direct to user may not be far off at all. It was a quick scan of a long article, but it seems that the system relies on wifi for the final path to the end user, instead of landline.
The government apparently issued a response strategy in 2018, so, yeah, they're "working on it."
Were you thinking of the Starfish Prime test in 1962? There is plenty of theoretical dissection of what happened, based also on a similar Soviet test that same year. Underground tests still provided data on nuclear detonations, and we've also learned more about the structure of the upper atmosphere since then.
Yea the whole fishbowl project really. From the models devised from those experiments they have extrapolated what "could or should" happen regarding emp, but its all just models.
I tend to think that the starlink satellites would be greatly affected as well. In private discussion with starlink design engineers they give zero confidence in survivability of the local constellation above a blast.
Thanks for the clarification. My prior experience was some exposure to the Teledesic project, operating with an antenna footprint of 700 km2. These footprints move along at orbital speed (~7.8 km/sec for low Earth orbit), so dwell times are probably measured in a matter of a few minutes at most. There will be considerable packet switching to connect with a ground terminal.
I looked up Starlink to get some sense of the downlink distribution and support and it is pretty amazing. A complete terminal is priced to be available to commercial or industrial entities. A lesser capability is potentially available to those who can afford it, so links direct to user may not be far off at all. It was a quick scan of a long article, but it seems that the system relies on wifi for the final path to the end user, instead of landline.
The government apparently issued a response strategy in 2018, so, yeah, they're "working on it."
Were you thinking of the Starfish Prime test in 1962? There is plenty of theoretical dissection of what happened, based also on a similar Soviet test that same year. Underground tests still provided data on nuclear detonations, and we've also learned more about the structure of the upper atmosphere since then.
Yea the whole fishbowl project really. From the models devised from those experiments they have extrapolated what "could or should" happen regarding emp, but its all just models.
I tend to think that the starlink satellites would be greatly affected as well. In private discussion with starlink design engineers they give zero confidence in survivability of the local constellation above a blast.