A group of researchers in China may have found a way to disrupt Starlink communications, creating a massive airborne barrier to jam signals that jump from one satellite to the next.

The new study, published in China’s peer-reviewed journal Systems Engineering and Electronics, simulates a detailed attempt to jam a constellation of 10,000 satellites across an area as large as Taiwan, the South China Morning Post reports .

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are difficult to jam, and attempts to block their signals from the ground would be fruitless. Instead, the researchers suggest deploying nearly 1,000 jammers in the air using drones, balloons, or aircraft. A team of researchers from Zhejiang University and the Beijing Institute of Technology devised the newly proposed strategy.

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