I dont think detecting them is too significant - with the naked eye you can see starlink satellites at night from your own front door when they are passing over. And they arent stealthy since they have to be busy broadcasting their comms(or they dont work for anyone), and their locations are often published!
The strategies to destroy, hijack or incapacitate them is the significant piece of work. Some number of them (all?) have hall-effect thrusters, to provide the ability for constant course corrections. And can probably de-orbit them and burn them up if they were controlled even for a short amount of time by a hostile party.
As soon as you let your business host terrorist groups, you have made the choice to become a viable military target in any fielded response to those terrorists. I hope it doesn't come to that, but it would seem Elon has made his call.
It's important to note that Kalinka is meant to identify and disable the ground stations/terminals that are being used by the Ukrainian troops,
Kalinka is not being used to interfere or attack the Starlink Satellites.
I dont think detecting them is too significant - with the naked eye you can see starlink satellites at night from your own front door when they are passing over. And they arent stealthy since they have to be busy broadcasting their comms(or they dont work for anyone), and their locations are often published!
The strategies to destroy, hijack or incapacitate them is the significant piece of work. Some number of them (all?) have hall-effect thrusters, to provide the ability for constant course corrections. And can probably de-orbit them and burn them up if they were controlled even for a short amount of time by a hostile party.
As soon as you let your business host terrorist groups, you have made the choice to become a viable military target in any fielded response to those terrorists. I hope it doesn't come to that, but it would seem Elon has made his call.
It's important to note that Kalinka is meant to identify and disable the ground stations/terminals that are being used by the Ukrainian troops, Kalinka is not being used to interfere or attack the Starlink Satellites.