• Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    The US has been doing a lot of shady shit itself with the unmanned shuttle program

    Nevertheless a nuclear explosion in space would be terrible. Would fry most sattelites.

    • TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      according to the post the satellite isn’t a nuke, its nuclear powered. I feel like that probably means it is using an RTG, which has been used before on things like the curiosity mars rover.

      the report seems to insist its actually an anti-satellite weapon of some kind, weather or not it’s a trustworthy source I dont know.