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by QuarterReptile 463 days ago
Tracking satellites is computationally intensive, Starlink has many satellites, and friends generally don't jam friends' communication satellites.

The old jokes about aggressive NFL Copyright enforcement would really pale in comparison to Spain developing a mature anti-satellite capability in order to disrupt soccer broadcast piracy at the physical layer.

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> Tracking satellites is computationally intensive

Is it? I've seen a guy doing it by hand with a YAGI antenna and a little handled radio. But I could see it for many and the phased part. Also people have web models like this one showing the orbits.

https://satellitemap.space/

Anyway yeah just mental exercise not really arguing for it