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Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellites heavily criticised after two nearly crash into Chinese space station

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(FILES) In this file photo Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 at the Washington Convention Center on March 9, 2020, in Washington, DC. - President Donald Trump sided with Tesla on May 12, 2020, calling for California authorities to allow the reopening of the electric carmaker's assembly plant after company chief Elon Musk said he was defying local authorities. Trump's comments came a day after Musk said he was restarting production at the plant in Fremont, California and after a series of angry tirades against the state's lockdown policies to contain the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese social media users have taken to Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, to criticise Elon Musk. Copyright: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites nearly collided with the Chinese Space Station twice this year. The close calls have led to criticism of Elon Musk’s internet satellite company — Starlink.

China has reportedly complained to the UN that its space station was forced to avoid collisions with satellites launched by Musk’s Starlink Internet Services project.

‘For safety reasons, the China Space Station implemented preventive collision avoidance control,’ Beijing said in the document published on the agency’s website.

After the complaint was made public, Chinese social media users have taken to Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, to criticise Elon Musk, Starlink and the US. The topic of Starlink has been viewed on Weibo nearly 900 million times with one user describing Starlink’s satellites as ‘a pile of space junk’.

Others claimed that the satellites were ‘American space warfare weapons’ and ‘Musk is a new “weapon” created by the US government and military’.

epa09600018 A handout picture made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ready for launch, with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, 23 November 2021. DART is the world???s first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. The mission was built and is managed by Johns Hopkins APL for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. EPA/Bill Ingalls / HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDIT: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
Starlink has been viewed on Weibo nearly 900 million times with one user describing Starlink’s satellites as ‘a pile of space junk’. Source: NASA (Credits: EPA)

‘The risks of Starlink are being gradually exposed, the whole human race will pay for their business activities,’ a user posting under the name Chen Haiying said on Weibo.

China’s state-backed Global Times also reported an expert saying SpaceX may be ‘trying to test China’s capability and response awareness in space’.

China also accused the US of putting astronauts in danger by ignoring obligations under outer space treaties. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said China was urging the US to act responsibly.

According to the UN Outer Space Treaty, nations bear responsibility for all activities in outer space by both government and non-government bodies.

SpaceX has already launched almost 1,900 satellites as part of the Starlink network and plans to deploy thousands more.

A live satellite orbit visualisation captured on 1 December, 2021. A string of SpaceX Starlink satellites can be seen crossing the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar (CelesTrak)
A live satellite orbit visualisation captured on 1 December, 2021. A string of SpaceX Starlink satellites can be seen crossing the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar (CelesTrak)

Scientists have voiced concerns about the risks of collisions in space and called on world governments to share information about the estimated 30,000 satellites and other space debris that are orbiting Earth.

China began constructing the space station in April and is expected to be completed by the end of 2022 after four crewed missions.

The tech billionaire has become a well-known figure in China with his electric car company Tesla. He also maintains an active Weibo account.

Musk’s Starlink is set to deploy the world’s most advanced broadband internet system that could make him a trillionaire. 

Metro.co.uk has reached out to SpaceX for comment.


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