“Our satellites aren’t pulling nine Gs, right?”, MrDickey observed, referring to gravitational force.
He described the manoeuvring as something of a slow-motion glide, “kinda like a Keanu Reeves thing in the Matrix.”
One key to helping satellites avoid attack is moving them out of what Teehan called “predictable orbits.”
These include geosynchronous earth orbits, positioning orbiting satellites over a specific spot over Earth, and low-earth orbits, in which they zoom around the world.
Mr Teehan said people are inventing solutions for quickly satellites from high orbits to low ones to provide an hour of intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance capability.
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