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over SpaceX's Starlink satellites,on the latter's website revealed. According to the document, Starlink satellites have had close encounters with the Chinese Space Station risking the health and even life of its astronauts.
Elon Musk founded SpaceX plans to offer satellite-based internet services across the globe and has ambitious plans of launching 12,000 satellites in low-earth orbit to support its service. So far, the company has launched only 1,740 satellites but is already responsible for. The only reason why these satellites have not caused a space mishap yet is due to the autonomous collision avoidance tech that they are armed with.
According to the protest lodged by China, Starlink-1095 had been in orbit at an altitude of 344 miles from April 2020, maneuvered to an altitude of 237 miles between the months of May and June in 2021. Thethat has been in orbit around 242 miles had to take evasive action on July 1 to avoid a potential collision.
A similar incident took place with Starlink-2035 on October 21 as the SpaceX satellite continued to maneuver with an unknown strategy and its"errors were hard to be assessed," forcing the space station to perform an evasive maneuver to ensure the safety of its astronauts, China alleged in its complaint. Both these incidents have not been independently verified and SpaceX has not commented on this so far.
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