Chinese citizens criticized Musk’s space ambitions after two of his satellites nearly collided with China’s budding space station.
Billionaire Elon Musk is facing criticism in China after the country recently complained that its budding space station, which is still in construction, had two “close encounters” with satellites launched by SpaceX’s Starlink program earlier this year....
Though the claims have not been independently verified and SpaceX is yet to respond, China alleges that its space station had to implement “preventive collision avoidance control” both on July 1 and October 21 when faced with oncoming Starlink satellites. According to the document, China informed the U.N. Secretary-General that the close encounters with Starlink satellites “constituted dangers to the life or health of astronauts aboard the China Space Station.”
The news was quickly followed by an intense backlash against Musk on Chinese social media site Weibo, with handfuls of users criticizing the billionaire’s space ambitions, Reuters firstChina began building its space station in April 2021 with the successful launch of its Tianhe core module and expects construction to be completed by the end of 2022.
says about the incident on October 21. “To ensure the safety and lives of in-orbit astronauts, the China Space Station performed an evasive manoeuvre again… to avoid a potential collision between the two spacecraft.”
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