Space: China Goes After SpaceX
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htspace/20220116.aspx
January 16, 2022: China has complained to the UN that American firm SpaceX has put too many of its Starlink satellites into LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and one of them recently came too close to a new Chinese space station. China wants SpaceX to do something about that and demands that the UN declare Starlink a danger to orbital traffic and regulate the number of satellites SpaceX can put into LEO for its Starlink Internet service.
China has other reasons for attacking SpaceX. Starlink is not the only one working to provide global satellite-based Internet service using a large number of small satellites in LEO. There is also Kepler, Telesat, LinkSure, LeoSat and others in the works. Starlink is backed by SpaceX, which has already launched nearly 2,000 satellites and does it cheaper than China, or anyone else.
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