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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
I suspect that the sats would not set off the mines, but any ships moving into the sector would set off the mines, and the sats would get attacked by the mines at that time.
IIRC this is not the case: the mines affect only the ships entering the sector. In earlier games I used the mining of planets from allies that I suspected to turn against me quite frequently. They lost the ships that went to the planet, but e.g. spacestations in the orbit were not harmed. It's quite a long time since I checked this so it might have been changed.
Did you try it with the newer Versions?