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		rkagerer 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness Sys... Weapons test springs to mind, or as a sibling comment suggested a test of Starlink response capabilities. How confident are we the intent was nefarious? Do you ever see accidental near-misses with this type of flight profile?

butvacuum 22 days ago [–]

The system exists- ergo, people in the know are concerned about accidental collisions.

jacquesm 22 days ago | [–]

Alternative: the system exists, so people in the know may well have done proper risk assessment and may have identified multiple reasons that could result in a collision. Some of those reasons are accidental, some are not.

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