“disrupting, degrading and denying hostile threats in space”
Not even pretending to be building and defending anything positive in space.
Oh no! Not our precious banking apps! What a weird thing to call out specifically. It's also kind of strange to talk at such length about how critical satellites have become to people's lives, national economy, emergency services, and people's "daily freedoms", only to conclude with "So now we're using ground-based systems to take out the satellites other countries depend on for all of those things"
Accurate timing is needed for banks accepting/sending payments (not just £5 for the window cleaner - more billions flowing every day).
So, who's the UK actually attacking?
With great power yadda yadda
ck2•44m ago
or a whole new technology invented other than radio waves for data transmission
are any satellites using laser downlink yet or is line-of-sight too temperamental with weather and planes?
cheschire•38m ago
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ck2•32m ago
but seriously, the first spy satellites used to drop film rolls and they had a crazy way for the military to track and catch them via planes
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)
pixl97•32m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite)
They'd drop their film back down to earth.
GolfPopper•31m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon
nefarious_ends•13m ago
someonebaggy•7m ago
pixl97•34m ago
In that case you don't need to ground lasers, you just beam the data where you have unjammed communications with the cost of higher latency.
LorenDB•28m ago
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notahacker•6m ago