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szpaceSZ t1_it67wmq wrote

Reply to comment by aecarol1 in China looked at putting a monitoring satellite in retrograde geostationary orbit via the moon by OkOrdinary5299

> It will destroy every single satellite in that orbit in 12 hours.

It will also deny GEO for the next 100.000 or so years for every power, including the one doing the destroying.

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aecarol1 t1_it7ax49 wrote

Probably no more than a few decades. Orbital dynamics would spread the items to other orbits. There's always be more there we'd like, but in a decade the density would lower enough to be manageable.

If you were in a struggle with an enemy that really depended on those satellites and you felt you could manage without them, you might strike such a blow to gain an advantage in that war.

I'm not remotely suggesting it's a good idea, but it's certainly one that I'm sure various powers have evaluated doing, or worried about being done to them.

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