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by ch4ch4 2832 days ago
What if you intentionally de-orbit a critical piece of infrastructure?

It could indirectly cause bodily harm, e.g. cause autonomous cars suddenly lose GPS lock and crash into things.

2 comments

GPS is quite redundant. Losing one satellite should not cause crashes. Actually a car that responds to GPS outages by crashing will not be very useful e.g. in tunnels or among tall buildings.
I get your point, but in particular GPS satellites are not in LEO.