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by gotocake 2678 days ago
Depending on how close it is, you could destroy or at least damage the sattelite without even needing to launch anything. As a weapon, it would be downright silly to threaten a major world power with it. Of course if your goal is just to terrorize countries and groups without a space program, and assuming (big assumption granted) that other countries don’t interfere, then it would be a fairly exotic way of terrifying people. VERY expensive though, and diverting it from power generation to “kill” mode would be even more expensive.

All told, a country that could use this as a weapon doesn’t need to use this as a weapon.