branchan

That's what the 'Quiet' part of the name is trying to solve.

From another source:

The X-59 has been designed to achieve a PLdB of 75, similar to what might be heard when standing next to a heavily trafficked road.

Not anymore. Especially not if you google "RHEL laser".

That is definitely not how China would enforce it.

You need a Starlink terminal in order to communicate with the satellite. China will most likely just block the sales of Starlink terminals in the country if they want to enforce a ban.

Your statistic in no way diminishes the losses that each country suffered during the war.

I find it hard to believe that they are completely re-designing the avionics/flight computers because of this gamma ray incident. There must be another reason.

If it's seriously the main concern, wouldn't it be much easier to just encase the computer in several inches of lead shielding?

Do you use the internet? GPS? Where do you think those technologies come from?

It’s likely that your work and life has greatly benefited from technologies that originated from the military.

I think we have been desensitized by all these SpaceX rocket landings. Propulsive landing is not as easy as it seems.

Imagine you are SpaceX. You are going to be launching a Starship. Given how booked your launch manifest is, would you rather launch a cubesat or a full-sized payload? Which would earn you more money?

1. It's not always feasible to launch your spacecraft with Starship (e.g. it wouldn't make sense if you are just launching a cubesat).

2. That's a pretty aggressive timeline to have Starship built and flight-proven.

Starship still needs to fire rockets in order to land. I would say it's a crazier idea than the ones you have mentioned. The previous solutions you have listed were used precisely because they were less crazy ideas.

You can be sneaky sure, but that what background checks are for - to see if you are a trustworthy individual.