starlinksatellite Internet company Elon Musk, has already attracted attention China due to its important presence in low Earth orbit, for what reason Asian country plans to launch a fleet of satellites strangle the firm of an American tycoon.
According to the South China Morning Post, researchers say China plans to build a huge network of satellites in Earth orbit to provide internet services users around the world… and stifle Starlink.
He the project is codenamed “GW”, According to a team led by Associate Professor Xu Jang of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Space Engineering University in Beijing. But it is not yet clear what these letters mean.
As Xu and colleagues explain in an article on measures against Starlink published in the Chinese journal Command Control and Simulation, the GW constellation will include 12,992 satellites owned by the newly formed China Satellite Network Group Co.
According to the publication, the main idea of this project is to compete with Musk and prevent Starlink from completely capturing the resources of low Earth orbitwhere more than 3,000 satellites have already been deployed and it is planned to increase them to 40,000.
As Xu’s team wrote, it is likely that GW satellite constellation to be rapidly deployed, “before Starlink is completed.” This “would guarantee our country a place in low orbit and prevent the Starlink constellation from being too far ahead of resources in low orbit,” they explained.
satellites of Chinese origin could also be placed in “orbits not yet reached by the Starlink constellation”the researchers said, adding that they “will gain capabilities and advantages at other orbital altitudes and even suppress Starlink.”
The Chinese satellite network is also can be fitted with an anti-Starlink payload to carry out various missions, such as performing “short and long-range surveillance of Starlink satellites,” they said.
fight for space
The document highlights that currently Starlink satellites can receive data from the US Department of Defense plan or coordinate their positions and are equipped with surveillance sensors to monitor the space environment. “Satellites Starlink can use its orbital maneuverability to attack and actively destroy nearby targets in space,” the researchers say.
Given the capabilities of American satellites, CHina plans to build more powerful radar systems and equipped with new technology to identify and track Starlink satellites, they added.
The researchers note that The Chinese government can also cooperate with other governments form a coalition against Starlink and “demand SpaceX to provide accurate orbital data from Starlink satellites.”
They added that they they will develop new weapons, including lasers and microwaves. powerful, which will be used to destroy Starlink satellites passing over China or other vulnerable regions.
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Source: La Opinion
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