🧵 Russian Space Nukes
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 12:19:11 UTC No. 16157624
>Asked about the potential effect of such a weapon, Plumb said low-Earth orbit — the most common orbit for satellites — would be rendered unusable for possibly up to a year because of the radiation from a nuclear detonation.
What's the science behind this? How does detonating a nuke in orbit render that orbit usable?
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 13:22:54 UTC No. 16157679
satellites would get a tummy ache :(
Anonymous at Fri, 3 May 2024 16:01:28 UTC No. 16157835
>>16157624
I think the idea is that the debris would stay in orbit, I find it unlikely, as the fireball grew supposedly to 200m in 16ms, giving it the velocity of 12.5km/s, so almost certainly it would be thrown out of Earth's orbit.
Anyway this is meaningless, since no such a bomb exists.