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I don't think it works like that. If one of Elon's Satellites get hit (intentionally or not) by a Russian/Chinese missile/satellite... I don't think SpaceX has any realistic way to enforce rights.

But I don't see why they would wanna do that. I don't know how these things works but it seems like there's enough space in space for all the satellites SpaceX would wanna launch.

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You're talking about a company that makes tricked out ICBMs. I suspect that SpaceX could handle a tit-for-tat exchange with any space power. The only real limit would be budgetary, but I'm pretty sure the U.S. government could find a way to funnel funds. Of course, none if this would ever happen in the real world, I just wanted to point out that SpaceX is making some if the bigger rockets flying today, and they far from helpless.

This may be slightly pedantic, but Space-X's launch vehicles are not ICBMs.

Yes, it is being pedantic ;). You may also have noted that nobody "tricks out" ICBMs (the aftermarket parts available for ICBMs is rather limited...), and may have concluded that the original post was simply taking a few liberties with the language...

> nobody "tricks out" ICBMs

Russia does :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepr-1

In rocketry, the words "payload" and "warhead" are interchangable.

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