What the f is going on in this thread and what the hell are you even talking about? Starshield is just Starlink built for (and controlled by) the DoD. It's their own, smaller, military version of the bigger commercial constellation. It's old news. It was announced like a year ago or more. Starshield launches are not any more interesting than any other Starlink or NRO (spy satellite) launch.
I’m just talking totally out of my A S S. Wouldn’t it be cool if this starship launch somehow utilized starshield for grabbing starship, like proof of concept to the military of some kind of hyper accurate military grade GPS that can pinpoint a rocket and control it to the accuracy of between two chop sticks?
My first thought was nuclear anxiety; it’s nice to feel like we have a secret shield in space. Then I saw Trump talked about it, so my current hypothesis is the partisan parroting that happens on both sides. (Or if someone doesn’t like military spending, maybe it’s an anti-Musk thing?)
That said, the three accounts that have been posting about it seem to really like this topic [1][2][3], so maybe it’s a niche thing. They all seem to really like one Reddit thread.
