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[JumpCrisscross]

This is a nonsense conspiracy theory. It popped up based mostly off conserving a single man’s connection to 2001 SpaceX.

Does Starship enable brilliant pebbles? Sure. But that’s because it provides easy access to space. Starlink could be described as a network of communication ‘pebbles’, as could Starshield, SpaceX’s actual military contract [1].

(Starship provides a technology platform for rapid launch. That’s more valuable for missile defence than orbital nonsense for intercepting warheads by way of predictable and observable plane-change manoeuvres.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield

[bob1029]

It's probably nonsense, but the latest versions of the starlink satellite are significantly heavier than prior generations.

  v0.9: 227 kg (500 lb)
  v1: 260 kg (570 lb)
  v1.5: ~306 kg (675 lb)
  v2 mini: ~740 kg (1,630 lb)
  v2: ~1,250 kg (2,760 lb)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink