Re: Would ground/plane based laser be effective ?
A directed-energy "solution" to constellations of communications satellites could degrade service, but replacements could be launched faster than they could be knocked out. Unless, of course, the Chinese hired SpaceX to shoot down their own satellites with another constellation, this time of killer sats. I wouldn't put it past Mr. Musk to accept a sufficiently lucrative offer.
The only saving grace in such an idiotic war would be that the satellites are for the most part, orbiting at altitudes used by not much else, so the immense cloud of debris the destruction would create wouldn't be likely to affect other spacecraft.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
