FYI the Scout is what they launched at Wallops Island and it was about as simple as it gets - basically very old tech - in our timeline they shut it down in 1994 but you could see here that it could remain in service - the question is how many, if any, would be left
France on the other hand may be able to launch satellites very soon after the war, possibly even as early as 2000-2001 - but they may be delayed as well by having to wait for the debris to die down in space
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
and the communication satellites in geosynchronous orbit would have been very hard targets - not unless the Soviets went up there with something manned or something nuclear
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