How can GLONASS (GPS) satellites be disabled?

What would it take for GPS system to be disabled? Why interceptions with missiles and energy weapons aren't a viable option? How might interceptions by other vehicles in orbit be performed? Finally, how might finances and sanctions impact demanding projects like satellite navigation constellations?

00:00 Intro
02:18 Anti-sat missiles
05:50 Anti-sat satellites?
09:44 Laser and jamming
12:07 Technology & industry woes

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[AlexLee-dcvb]

that reference to Not What You Think KILLED me lmao

[SarahHgn]

Russian satellite breaks up in space, forcing ISS astronauts to shelter in capsules: great timing.

[someguydino]

As I understand it; most people think of anti- satellite weapons in the wrong way.
Striking the satellites with a projectile or burning it with a beam is NOT necessary.
It only takes a small amount of force applied to a satellite to send it tumbling off into space.
Sure satellites have fuel onboard to make positioning and station keeping adjustments; but the amount that is carried is very limited; with most older satellites having little fuel left.
So all that's needed in many cases is just a gentle, steady push over a period of time to send satellites spinning out of control.

[digitalfortressmining]

lmao your "not what you think" reference was pretty awesome 😅 the self awareness of how similar it sounds to the original is pretty hilarious

[ReconPro]

Hello hope everyone has a great weekend 😊❤

[BigDaddy-ypmi]

GPS satellites ABSOLUTELY depend on input signals. Even a few feet drift in orbit magnifies to many orders of magnitude. Their orbital data is uploaded DAILY to correct for drift in it's timing signal calculations. Lots of wrong info in this video dude....

[fh]

The way to take down Glonass is to launch RF reflectors and park them in front of the Russian satellites. They maneuver around, we maneuver back in front. They run out of fuel, and that's that. We leverage our vastly superior launch capability to keep sending up dumb reflectors. The best thing about it is that it is easily reversible and doesn't clutter up space with debris.

Amateur radio people have demonstrated that Starlink can be used as a GPS system. Good luck taking all those down.

[vectorsfinal]

"Its not what you think". I see what you did there

[thomasherbig]

Your explanation of satellite lifetimes is not correct. Orbital decay depends on altitude - the higher, the lower the atmospheric drag. At 400km an orbit will decay in 10 years; at 700 km in 100 years, and at 900 km in 1, 000 years. I haven’t calculated the decay time for a satnav orbit, but it’s likely many millions of years. The reasons for limited satnav lifetimes are component failure and limited fuel for stationkeeping.

[Zmok]

Constellations like Starlink are basically invulnerable to normal ASAT missiles becasue launching them is much cheaper than shooting them down. You would need to launch multiple interceptors with one launch on one orbital plane. But dispersing them around the whole orbit would take time and so it begin to be a game of who have more fuel for maneuvering.
And Starlink's array could probably be used as crude positioning system and global real-time radar recoinnassance, just with software update. In a hot war this might be what will be done.

[stupidburp]

Low earth orbit satellites can potentially be disabled by long term heating from ground based directed energy weapons. But navigation satellites and other objects in higher orbits would need strikes from space based energy weapon platforms or kinetic ASAT weapons. Kinetic weapons create a lot of debris and energy based weapons would be preferred to reduce the mess.

[jerseyshoredroneservices]

The US and any country with any little bit of responsible thinking would be extremely reluctant to attack satellites with missiles.
The debris field would take out other satellites and those debris fields would take out the rest. It would be a cascading disaster that would destroy everything in the orbit and lower orbits as the stuff eventually started to fall down.

[BaKer]

mate, my biggest fear is kessler syndrome, how did you no mention this in the opening

[jackuzi]

One topic not discussed is launching rockets filled with tungsten/lead/steel balls into your enemy's constellation orbit, in the opposite direction. One metric ton of cargo would equate to 100, 000 10-gram objects. Instead of launching in the direction of earth's rotation, launch against it, producing high velocity impacts with other objects (navigation satellites) in that orbit. Impacts would produce more debris. While the effect wouldn't be instant, satellite destruction would continue for a few years until the metal balls fell out of orbit, so even if the enemy had additional satellites ready to launch, they'd meet the same fate as existing ones. Of course the enemy could do the same thing to your constellation, so this would only be a winning play for Russia or China (in that the US has more to lose if all navigation satellites are destroyed).

[wouldntyouliketoknow]

Maybe the real GPS is the friends we find along the way...

[nhecos]

Looking has they regularly use consumer grade GPS clients, I don''t think Russian armed forces would miss GLONASS that much...

[NewReflections-pwxm]

I swear I thought the thumbnail was of a satellite dropping cigarettes onto Russian warships. Haha.

[JayRappa]

My Garmin wearables use Glonas. It sucks so bad I could care less if all the satellites get blown up lol

[shannonkohl]

Is there a reason you are showing a US boat when talking about the Russian Kazan? Starting right after the NordVPN ad. Weight until the US Flag flying on the stern shows up if you don't recognize it from the sail / SEAL decompression chambers.

[parthasarathyvenkatadri]

Multiple small lasers can be used like a large single laser...