Connori Pilgrims wrote:
That said, Rods from God as a concept is very much a first-strike system, which someone here has already noted is perfectly fine and good only for global policemen bombing ebul moslem terrorists and dirty korean communists who have no ASAT weaponry (either ground-based or space-based) to respond. In any symmetrical war scenario Rods is too vulnerable and too inflexible to be of use.
And as stated, it will cost more to launch and engineer, but you can gain quite a bit of survivability if you just put them a few hundred km higher. The cost to increase altitude once already in orbit is beans compared to initial launch costs, anyway.
Just because an ASAT can reach space does not mean it will be able to go high enough to hit your satellite. We don't have ASATs, IIRC, that can hit geostationary orbiting satellites or even circular-geosynchronous-orbit satellites.