Overview
- Published November 5 in Systems Engineering and Electronics, the peer‑reviewed simulation comes from researchers at Zhejiang University and the Beijing Institute of Technology.
- The model finds a distributed swarm is the only viable approach, with synchronized jammers mounted on drones, balloons, or aircraft rather than a few powerful ground stations.
- Researchers estimate at least 935 airborne platforms would be needed to fully suppress service over an area the size of Taiwan, rising to about 2,000 when using lower‑power 23 dBW units spaced roughly three miles apart.
- The analysis highlights Starlink’s low‑Earth‑orbit design and rapid terminal handoffs between moving satellites, creating spatiotemporal uncertainty that complicates sustained jamming.
- The simulation varied jammer power and antenna beamwidth to gauge whether ground terminals could maintain usable links, and the team cautions real‑world performance may differ because key anti‑jamming details are confidential.