I think you severely underestimate the amount of power you would need to damage some Starlink satellites in the 4 minutes they would be visible while tracking them at ridiculous speeds.
Modern welding lasers are pretty powerful. Hard part is focussing them, especially given need for adaptive optics for atmospheric turbulence. Movement is almost irrelevant, they only deviate from a fixed path while their engines run, and even then those engines are pretty weak.
I'm saying the only real limit now is the adaptive optics.
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I think you severely underestimate the amount of power you would need to damage some Starlink satellites in the 4 minutes they would be visible while tracking them at ridiculous speeds.
Modern welding lasers are pretty powerful. Hard part is focussing them, especially given need for adaptive optics for atmospheric turbulence. Movement is almost irrelevant, they only deviate from a fixed path while their engines run, and even then those engines are pretty weak.
I'm saying the only real limit now is the adaptive optics.