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Old 01-08-2016, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Olefin View Post

And I don't agree that the GPS network could have been taken out by the ASAT's of the 90's unless you postulate weapons that were a lot more effective than what was being looked at - the GPS satellites are at 12,500 miles - that's a heck of a lot harder to get to than the weather and surveillance satellites that orbit much lower and are thus much easier to knock out
Given that GPS orbits don't conflict with Surveillance (LEO) and Communication (GEO) if I were the soviets I would have a few ICBMs set up to put 10,000 ball bearings into an exact counter orbits to the 6 GPS tracks. Bing bang and 24 booms.

If Kerbal space program gets better at handling small objects over the horizon, I might try it.
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