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by pepesza 2116 days ago
Think of Kessler syndrome. One can imagine that blowing (small) N of them would create a cloud of shrapnel posing danger for the whole network. Birds are on really low orbits, so it would clear after some time, but network might not survive this.
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Starlink satellites are in decaying orbits, eventually they fall through the atmosphere and burn away.

They have some propellant to make adjustments and stay in orbit a bit longer but if you blow them up you just make the decay process quicker.