Russia: Commercial satellite constellations providing help to the Ukraine are now targets
Russia this week informed regulators at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that it now considers all European and American private satellite constellations “legitimate targets to be destroyed” if they provide any help to the Ukraine.
Russia tells ITU that GPS/Galileo/GNSS nav & commercial broadcast sats helping Ukraine militarily should expect interference. Same for EutelsatGroup, OneWeb, Starlink constellations, which Russia has said are ‘legitimate targets to be destroyed.
There is more at the full article, but that is behind a subscription paywall.
Russia’s announcement here is probably in response to Trump’s more bellicose statements recently about Putin and Russia.
It is hard to predict what will happen, especially when you have a dictator like Putin in power where rational thinking can never be relied on and no laws apply. For example, destroying any orbiting satellites in low Earth orbit will create space junk that will threaten ISS, and a situation NOT beneficial to Russia.
I suspect Russia will begin by trying to jam these constellations. Let us hope it does not go farther than that.
Hat tip to BtB’s stringer Jay.
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Russia this week informed regulators at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that it now considers all European and American private satellite constellations “legitimate targets to be destroyed” if they provide any help to the Ukraine.
Russia tells ITU that GPS/Galileo/GNSS nav & commercial broadcast sats helping Ukraine militarily should expect interference. Same for EutelsatGroup, OneWeb, Starlink constellations, which Russia has said are ‘legitimate targets to be destroyed.
There is more at the full article, but that is behind a subscription paywall.
Russia’s announcement here is probably in response to Trump’s more bellicose statements recently about Putin and Russia.
It is hard to predict what will happen, especially when you have a dictator like Putin in power where rational thinking can never be relied on and no laws apply. For example, destroying any orbiting satellites in low Earth orbit will create space junk that will threaten ISS, and a situation NOT beneficial to Russia.
I suspect Russia will begin by trying to jam these constellations. Let us hope it does not go farther than that.
Hat tip to BtB’s stringer Jay.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
There are nations who are now in the space industry who are now able to cause a large space disaster.
I am one who’s internet is via a satellite in earth orbit.
“It is hard to predict what will happen, especially when you have a dictator like Putin in power where rational thinking can never be relied on and no laws apply. For example, destroying any orbiting satellites in low Earth orbit will create space junk that will threaten ISS, and a situation NOT beneficial to Russia.”
The United States is sending weapons capable of hitting Moscow.
Which is rational thinking:
1 Destroying the satellite guidance systems that would used to strike your nation’s capitol
Or
2 Worrying about the ISS while your nation’s capitol is decimated by long range missiles
In any potential war with Russia, or China, our space based assets would be a target as they are so important to our military and economy, which is why it is good we have a Space Force. In the past, our options were reciprocal but now? Who knows what we can do.
We should make clear that any ASAT attack that damages the environment will be met with a response, regardless of whether or not we are involved in the conflict. The response should be removing a country’s ability to operate in space.