Forty years ago I lived in Brazil and had a friend who manned a U.S. satellite tracking station in the middle of nowhere, deep in the interior. He only made the several hour drive to town once a month for supplies. His accommodations were shockingly rudimentary. To me it looked like a shack crammed with techie stuff. He slept on a cot and had to set all kinds of wake up alarms to get up multiple times in the middle of every night to push buttons when certain satellites passed over. Maybe things have changed since then, but I imagine the U.S. has a network of these all over the world - what the Russians probably don't have.

That's a good title for a series: "What else is now gone" !

feels to me like in the 21st century having access to space is very important for future sustainability and power projection

Also critically importatnt! There was an unfortunate smoking accident at one of Russia's most sensitive chip making facilities outside Moscow. This facility manufactures chips for all their missiles and aircraft. Without them they become ugly statues. At last look three of the floors of the building were engulfed in flame and numerous engineers were trapped on the upper floors. Since most of the equipment is irreplacable you can assume Russian missile production and aircraft production is done for the remainder of this war.

Excellent commentary. Note that Russian communications satellites have special "Molnya" orbits to compensate for Russia's lack of a world-wide ground station network.

If Ukraine can hit the Bear Lakes radar near Moscow then Russia will be blind in their western regions. That combined with a lot of the satellites being in Molniya orbits means station keeping for their satellites will be more difficult.

Those who can't act like civilized, intelligent beings on the ground have no business going into space 🤷‍♂

God bless Ukraine!

It's a mighty blow for good against wickedness.

In case anyone is looking to "visit" them... there were four main antennas in the Russian Deep Space Network: A 64-meter antenna at Bear Lakes, near Moscow. A 64-meter antenna at Kalyazin, Russia. A 70-meter antenna at Yevpatoria in Crimea and a 70-meter antenna in Ussuriysk near Vladivostok.

Ten years ago, I would think of the fall of the Roman Empire and then imagine the decline of US power and Western Civilization and its final collapse. And I always imagined it would be something similar to what Russia is experiencing now: over extension of its military followed by contraction, a weakening central government, a breakdown in infrastructure from highways to public education, loss of human capital, loss of capabilities, a spike in poverty rates, advance technology fading away before disappearing, and finally civil unrest and breakup. It's fascinating to see it happen to what was once considered our most dangerous rival, and I believe that underscores the superiority of liberal democracies. We may be messy and take forever to change policy, but we seem able to maintain our capabilities for innovation, generating wealth, enacting change, absorbing immigrants, fighting corruption, respond to crises (barring climate change), and sharing power between the different political interests. Russia is foundering because Putin has taken away Russia's capabilities to do any of that.

Is this the first instance of space warfare, technically? Ironic but obvious, in hindsight, that the first attack on anyone's space-based infrastructure and capabilities would actually happen on the ground.

Nice. The rushist empire is crumbling

Hey Peter, if glonass stops, it might mean another thing. They may/will start using GPS.. but as they are actively jamming GPS, they might actually stop jamming 3:11

Hope is one thing, Realty is different.🥳

Woah! Way to go Ukraine!

Circling the drain

Wow! We won't be hearing this on the nightly news. "Good show old chap!" Thanks and "Cheerio".

How about a history lesson on Ukraine versus Russia, re industry and education etc

Peter’s thirst for Ukrainian blood can not be slaked

@01:01 I don't know if satellites make that sound, but from now on, that's how they're going to sound in my head. 😂

And you forgot to add they were using it to help with military communications on the ground.

Russia is a large northern province of China.

Well done Ukraine. Love yr work Pete.

You are wrong. Russian space rockets (Soyuz) are NOT old ICBM's. Soyuz rockets were derived from ICBM's back in 1950's, but now they do not have anything common with modern ICBM's.

Zeihan has predicted 37558 of the last 12 defeats.

Sounds great. So where are the other three?

The Russians use Soyuz rockets to launch into space. Not decommissioned ICBMs. Am I getting something wrong? Does he mean they are slavaging parts from ICBMs? Because those are different things.

Russian troops destroyed three HIMARS launchers and a transport-loading vehicle, the Ministry of Defense said. Foreign specialists who operated Western equipment were also attacked. It is possible that those war criminals who killed children on the beach in Sevastopol were destroyed. About thirty NATO specialists.

Can someone point me to a news discussing the news he's talking about. I can't find it. 😮

Potential for a situation like in the movie "Gravity" moving closer to reality.

I'm surprised that Ukraine didn't go after this site earlier.

Thanks for the update and views 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Oklahoma USA 🇺🇦🇺🇲

Two comments. The Russian portion of the International Space Station is leaking in several places. That speaks to quality of Russian space program. Also, expect India to develop a better launch business. They also lack a global network but would be happy to develop a commercial launch business.

I'm pretty sure that India is developing a pretty good space launch service these days, so there is more than just Russia. There's a lot more going on with space than you'd think.

Peter draws bots like a dog draws flees! Must be doing something right…. 😎

Thanks 🙏👍!

How much of a risk is satellite collisional cascade? Do the current developments mentioned or other recent counter space weapons increase the risk?

Where do you find you information on the Ukraine war?

Monaco yesterday. Colorado today. 🤔

Russia is going back to the Stone Age.

very cool! you go Ukraine!

Thank you for all your update. I like the way you describe it. Plain and simple.

Cool. Enjoyed that.

The fall of the former Soviet Union is continuing. 😊

Oh boy... good information Peter, thanks for sharing it.

If Glosnass goes down, would they not just use another GNS Constellation? GPS, Gallileo, or BeiDou?

Peter is a national treasure!

Did he really just called SpaceX cost-effective?

Excellent updates. Most appreciated.

Mirages over the summer? Haven't heard that yet. Thanks Peter.

Bots are strong in these comments!

Stories like this should remind everyone why the U.S. has a Space Force now

2:34 india

Sorry. you are dead wrong Peter. Air Superiority in any form for an hour is not "air superiority". You cant "clear minefields" with only small windows of air superiority. You need an hour just to set up security before the breaching starts.

Re GPS systems, once you have each systems almanac, ( they all broadcast these) you can create a fix with one satellite from each system. Commonly used in the OnG offshore industry in the newest receivers

Could Ukraine stop Russian nuclear capabilities then?

ty - and that's why Australia is essential to US - Pine Gap anyone.

Great.

Concerning nuclear blackmail of Ukraine with the threat and use of tactical nukes: Ukraine is not totally without nuclear alternatives of its own: a Russian tactical nuke strike could be countered by a series of dirty bombs exploded over western Russia to create a buffer contaminated zone. That would be crazy, but crazy is as crazy does.

What took out the satellite??

What happens when the lack of maintenance causes a Russian satellite to pinball off other satellites in orbit?

At what point does escalation cause Russia to need to exert over force to end the small gains by Ukraine

Peter you handsome fellow!

So, at what point does elon thank the Ukrainians?

Thank you

I can smell that scenery in the background

The deep space communication network is for deep space, not orbital spacecraft. Earth orbit spacecraft are easy to communicate with. Amateur radio enthusiasts do it.

USA is delighted 👌Thanks Ukraine👏👏

So if the satellites drop in effectiveness... What are the Russian battlefield non-space systems like? Do they have modern mesh type networking? Would they have to move to a terrain mapping or dead reckoning method to guide longer range munitions? Or would we need some sort of local terminal phase, like laser? We also have the astronomical systems too, could they deploy that on the higher stuff?

How repairs of satellites really work ?

Holy crap, 2 minutes old and 77 comments.

Destroying Pootin's GLONASS (GPS) system would be a major blow for many weapons systems which use it for targeting. Missiles, Glide Bombs, even some artillery systems would be affected. Hmmm I wonder where the other 3 satellite radar networks are . . .

Rendering Russia blind to incoming missiles seems like a dangerous game. How do they know a first strike is not incoming? But also removing their inability to respond seems to be the strategy. You just have to hope you can make them impotent before they strike first themselves.

I believe Peter is a little bit too optimistic about the effect of Russian space here. But to the Ukrainians I will say: Please go on 🙂...and I guess the Russians may have a station accessible from the Pacific side... 🙏

China will probably help out with satellite coverage.

To be fair, rushists will still use glidebombs even with no navigation. Their weapons are already extremely inaccurate.

Lol, i wonder who had to tell Putin this news.. 😂😂

Fun fact. Ukrainian engineer Serhiy Koroliv miraculously survived a Soviet concentration camp (Gulag) to launch the first soviet monkey into space, and later the first russian man.

Can't the Russians use GPS to guide their glide bombs?

Dear Peter, I get nervous when you don’t release a new episode for anything more than 3 days. Please be more thoughtful for my fragile mental state. -thanks.

Building an argument on "ifs".

Awesome work !

The downfall of Russia has been speeded up by Putler bigtime 😅

No talk about the US cluster bombs that were dropped on the Crimean beach resort?

Bravo, bravissimo. You are such an amazing source of amazing news. I wonder what your sources are.

great news!

Pigs in spaaaaaaace !

The rudsians didnt use their old ICBMs to put men in space, thats rubbish. They did in the early days, but npt for decades.

Thank you sir 🙏

Thanks!

Very cool. Sure sounds like Russia was a paper tiger in high tech. Guess all the threat of Russia invading Europe & NATO just tanked too.

Glide bombs use GPS, nobody is using glonass anyway.

Anyone but me just sitting here thinking about the Kessler effect?

Glad i found your channel its excellent

YAAAAAAYYYYYY UKRAINE !!!!

This reminds me of when Soviets abandoned an astronaut in space when the USSR dissolved.

Where are the other deep space satellite communication stations located? Are they even within reach for Ukraine?

Building a ground station for a satellite network costs maybe $25M dollars. It would not surprise me if Russia has enough pull worldwide, to build some of these stations in various parts of the globe that would give them even better contact scheduling than they have now.

Copium! Pure fantasy.