You're missing it. Without a communications link, satellites and space vehicles cease to exist. The only value they provide is via wireless signal links back to us. All space problems are communications security problems of confidentiality, integrity, and most importantly, availability. Denial and disruption of space communications is the threat to all vehicles. Interception reaps any benfit they provide back without the investment in sending them out there. The only sovereignty we have in an age of space economics and risk comes from cryptography.
What, did you think our plan was to spend all this money just to figure out a way to bash them together? Like, rocks?
What, did you think our plan was to spend all this money just to figure out a way to bash them together? Like, rocks?