Hello Again .... I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Mr Musk was and is the inventor of reusable / vertical landing rockets / spaceships. He is. As his satellites will completely envelope the world, a burst of whatever in space will not affect ALL of his 12,000 satellites.
Why would russia or china destroy every satellite in the sky (with some kind of pulse) when THEIR OWN SATELLITES would also be fried?! They will not do that.
Musk's spaceX starships will be heading to Mars before long and his ventures to the moon will be starting soon also. He is going to surprise you all! Because he will do it. He is almost ready and personally I can't wait.
Oh and the Space Shuttle needed to be lifted up to orbit on a jumbo jet. And it could NOT fly back to Earth - but only glide. And if it missed its landing runway it was toast. It only had one chance!
Musk's rockets can land basically anywhere reasonably flat... even on barges at sea - which he has done. Would love to see a space shuttle do that! Glug glug glug! Musk and not the space shuttles are supplying the ISS now.
Musk's starship rockets have at this time resupplied the International Space Station 19 or 20 times. True.
