Originally Posted by
KenV
Yes
Yes. Military grade high resolution imaging cubesats? Not so much.
What if they are? Cubesats can be neutralized even easier than higher orbit hardened military satellites.
There are plenty of answers. None indicate that carriers are inherently more or less vulnerable than land airbases.
Not quite sure what your angle is Ken, I'm merely pointing out that technology advances and costs plummet.
An example is the planned 12,000 plus constellation of internet cube sats proposed by spacex to cover the continental US.
EG.BFR is said to have a capacity of 250 per launch, fh around 50@ 850 kg each.
So a determined foe with launch capability even less than say F9 could, with multiple launches, seed the area of operations of a carrier group and continue to do so.
As for speculation who says every 850kg cube sat actually needs to be for surveillance ....