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by terafo 1698 days ago
Single sat wouldn't be able to broadcast 24/7 because batteries will fail after some time and sun won't be available all the time. Because sat won't be powered on all the time it will collide with something eventually even if there is fuel left(I believe that you can't hold fuel for ion drives for that long because gases leak). One sat is definitely not going to work, dozen might have a chance. But I think they all will be hacked in less than a century.