Is Russia Maneuvering to Threaten an Iceye Satellite?

Is Russia Maneuvering to Threaten an Iceye Satellite?(integrityisr.com)

20 points by yread 9 hours ago | 14 comments

pants2 36 minutes ago |

Given that USA has 10X the number of orbital launches as Russia, sacrificing 4 satellites to destroy 1 American sat doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

rramadass 6 hours ago |

ICEYE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICEYE

Technical Documentation - https://sar.iceye.com/6.0.2/productspecification/introductio...

leephillips 3 hours ago |

What are these units relating the rate of use of fuel: m/s? Is it the velocity of expelled reaction gas?

inhumantsar 2 hours ago | |

I think that's delta-v.

leephillips 2 hours ago | | |

I’ll take your word for it; I’m not familiar with satellite-speak.

But to me,

“In this case, the fuel required to conduct such a maneuver is ~105-106m/sec”

means that they’re talking about a quantity of fuel, but giving a velocity.