Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite is totally concerned about the Chinese government and is working on a shutdown plan.
According to an article published last month, Chinese military researchers raised concerns about the military threat posed by the Starlink constellation.
The document purportedly emphasizes the need for China to develop retaliatory measures to destroy satellites if they threaten national security.
“For some Starlink satellites to lose their functionality and destroy the constellation’s operating system, a combination of soft and hard destruction must be adopted,” said an article published in the China Modern Defense Technology Journal.
The study was led by Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Surveillance and Communications, which was funded by China.
The researchers note that Starlink has strong ties to the US military funded by the US Air Force to test how well Starlink can communicate with encrypted military aircraft.
“In May 2020, the US Army signed a contract with SpaceX to send data over a military network using Starlink Broadband. In October 2020, SpaceX signed a contract with SpaceX to build a 150 million military satellite The newspaper won a dollar contract “In March 2021, we announced plans to continue testing Starlink Internet in collaboration with the US Air Force.”
As the Ukraine War has shown, Starlink satellites can provide the essential infrastructure for communications during war.
Starlink is undoubtedly an advantage over space, and unlike traditional communication infrastructure such as relay stations and undersea cables, Starlink satellites are more difficult to shut down.
In April, Russia even tried to shut down Starlink with an electromagnetic attack and suffered spectacular failure.
China already has traditional methods of disabling satellites using microwave blinds, target lasers, and ballistic missiles, but this document states that the Starlink constellation “applies to the entire system, not individual satellites.”
“It requires some low-cost, high-efficiency measures,” the researchers write.
Starlink plans to create 42,000 constellations, of which more than 2,300 active satellites are in orbit. Too many to target individually.
China plans to resist Starlink’s capabilities by building competing networks.
In 2020, China announced plans to create at least 10,000 constellations of satellites in low Earth orbit called StarNet. According to an Asia Times report, quoted by the Chugoku Shimbun official, the project will be implemented over the next 10 years.
StarNet could be China’s answer to competing space infrastructure with anti-satellite capabilities, including tracking and monitoring of all Starlink satellites.
This isn’t the first time Musk has come across a bad Chinese book. Last year, Billionaire’s SpaceX satellite was heavily criticized on Chinese social media after the two nearly collided with a Chinese space station.
Source: Metro
I have worked in the news industry for over 10 years. I have a vast amount of experience in covering health news. I am also an author at News Bulletin 247. I am highly experienced and knowledgeable in this field. I am a hard worker and always deliver quality work. I am a reliable source of information and always provide accurate information.
