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>>hnburn+(OP)
At some point in the future, will there be wars fought in LEO? Seems like a cold war already.

>>lazyfa+tC1
I believe the US and China (and Russia according to the Wendover video [1]) already have anti-satellite weapons to be used in a conflict, but they aren't like "blow this up" because of space debris. I'm not exactly sure how they work, but they aren't what we expect with terrestrial weapons.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0DmliiUFHk

>>atonse+eD1
What happens if you have a satellite that takes images of earth and it gets hit with a power beam of light that destroys the sensor so you get no more images of earth? Is that satellite just as dead to you as if it were rapidly disassembled? What happens if your satellite was heated for extended time beyond what it was designed to do? Is that satellite just as dead to you?