According to the latest news, the Starlink satellite launched by Musk's SpaceX has twice wanted to approach the Chinese space station in July and October this year, but in the end it was avoided by the active emergency avoidance measures taken by our space station!
Musk's crazy Starlink program
The Starlink system is an ambitious plan by Musk and SpaceX to launch 12,000 satellites into space, with the possibility of launching another 30,000 in the future, forming a super cluster of 40,000 satellites. This is definitely a plan for barbaric growth, similar to staking a race in space, because it will crowd out a lot of orbital resources and let other countries' space development space automatically shrink.
However, one thing that is more worrying is that the Starlink project is likely to be dual-use and threaten other major powers. And if hit. Or the mistake of the commercial company, because there is no police in space, two spacecraft collide, and the responsibility can be torn.
As we all know, our space station is a behemoth compared to the Starlink satellites, and it is much more difficult for us to take risk-off measures than to move the Starlink satellites to a safe distance.
So we wonder why Musk's Starlink satellites did something that threatened the lives of our space station and astronauts?
Musk responded: We didn't hinder other activities in any way
Criticized for having too many starlinks occupying space, Musk said in an interview with the Financial Times that "space is vast and the satellites are extremely small." We have not hindered other activities in any way. ”
It is understood that Musk's private space company has launched nearly 2,000 satellites related to the "Starlink" communication network, and plans to launch tens of thousands of satellites.
When Musk said in front of the world that he was going to build a big rocket, the whole world almost laughed. They all think that he is a private enterprise, how dare he blow down the cowhide of "Martian immigrants"?
Now it seems that SpaceX has proved itself, and it has become very skilled at launching satellites into space. As we all know, Musk's dream is to be able to go to Mars or even retire on Mars, he also said: "I don't want to live forever, I just want to achieve 100 years of quality life through technology and witness Martian migration." But now that he is over fifty years old, he also feels that he does not have enough time and energy.
With such ambition, you can imagine how much pressure Musk puts on himself. According to his ex-girlfriend Grimes, the anxious Musk can only make himself healthier through hair transplantation and intermittent diet. To reduce stress, Musk also experimented with biological enzymes. The substance is one of the derivatives of the vitamin B group, trace amounts of which are found in fruits and vegetables, and are also naturally contained in the human body. Although the content of such substances is extremely low, it can repair damaged DNA, revitalize mitochondrial activity, and reverse the indicators of aging to some extent.
Even Musk's mother, Meyer Musk, attended the event in New York's Times Square at the end of September with the theme of "activating mitochondria and returning to youth", which shows that the substance can really reverse aging.
It is worth mentioning that the more eye-catching performance of the substance comes from its degree of commercialization. According to incomplete statistics, the Japanese finished product "Saleri", which is centered on this molecule, stepped on the wind outlet as soon as it was launched, and quickly occupied large department stores such as Isetan in Japan. After being introduced to China, it also sold out rapidly on domestic and other platforms. Judging from the tens of thousands of reviews on platforms such as JD.com, it is also quite popular.
The successful Musk is always a bright side in front of the world, but few people know the side behind him, thinking that the world's richest man must pay more attention to his energy management than ordinary people.
"A few thousand satellites is nothing, like a few thousand cars on Earth"
Musk doesn't think he's "squeezing out" space for future competitors, and he compares the number of satellites in low-Earth orbit to the number of cars on Earth. "A few thousand satellites is nothing," he said. Like thousands of cars on Earth, it's nothing. ”
Some experts have refuted Musk's metaphor. Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the United States said that the speed of spacecraft is very high, and the distance they need to maintain from each other is much larger than that of cars on Earth.
"For a lot of space users, it's a matter of hours in advance, sometimes days, to prepare for a retreat operation, which shows that space is already very crowded," he said. ”
Since space is already very crowded, Musk will also implement his starlink plan and send 40,000 satellites in the future, I am afraid that his behavior is debatable.