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China sees a threat in Starlink satellites and has been developing it for several monthsprograms to destroy them.
What is known
New model developed by Chinesespecialists, allows you to disable several hundred or even thousands of satellites without harming friendly spacecraft. For example, SpaceX has launched more than 3,500 first-generation Starlink satellites into orbit, and will begin sending Starlink V2 into space in 2023.
Chinese scientists believe that to disableenemy spacecraft can be used with a 10 megaton nuclear warhead. According to calculations, an explosion in orbit will provoke the capture of radioactive particles by the planet's magnetic field, which will threaten all satellites, including friendly ones.
In this regard, experts suggest blowing upan atomic bomb at an altitude of 80 km so that the air helps create a radioactive cloud that will cover an area of about 140,000 square meters in a matter of minutes. km at an altitude of 500 km. This will make it possible to partially or completely destroy spacecraft in the selected orbit.
Physicists from the Celestial Empire emphasized thatThe developed model will completely repeat the behavior of the radioactive cloud, which was formed as a result of high-altitude tests of nuclear charges in the area of the Hawaiian Islands. They were conducted by the United States 60 years ago as part of the Starfish Storm project to study the effects of a nuclear explosion in outer space.