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There is the matter of space debris, which is already a problem. If you're going to attack satellites to disable them you want to capture them in a decaying orbit.
Or, hear me out, nukes. Explode a nuke far away enough that the shockwave doesn't matter (not like it matters much in space anyway) and use the EMP to knock the satellite out.
Nukes solve a lot of problems.
I feel like you have the same misconceptions that people do about the garbage island.
The pieces of space debris are very far apart, so detonating a nuke would only catch a very small amount
Yeah, you need more nukes then. Problem solved.
That they do
Nukes solve a lot of problems.
Hell yeah brother
pfff just use the massive amounts of photones to push it into a higher graveyard orbit
All low earth orbits are decaying without periodic adjustments. If you disable a satellite, it will eventually burn up in the atmosphere.
Some orbits are quicker than others. Cloudsat was recently retired, and was lowered to a graveyard orbit which decays a lot more quickly. As I understand it, our collective space programs have made a bit of a mess of operational orbits and we need to think about cleaning up debris while also mitigating any future additions to the debris field.