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Do you remember the movie "Gravity"?
At the beginning of the film, the Hubble Space Telescope is malfunctioning, and several astronauts are sent to repair it, but they are halfway through, but the danger suddenly comes: a Russian-launched missile blows up a satellite in space.
After the satellite exploded, a large amount of debris burst out, destroying not only the repaired Hubble telescope, but also the spacecraft on which the astronauts were riding, and all but two astronauts who participated in the mission were killed.
The surviving astronauts eventually relied on the assistance of the Chinese space station to return to Earth.
It is said that art comes from life, but no one expected that such a science fiction scene almost found a "replica" in life, and the protagonist of this story.
Or we Are China.
Fortunately, this anomaly was discovered in time by our observatory, and the Tiangong station was urgently contacted to adjust the orbit in order to avoid collision.
But wave after wave, wave after wave.
Just 3 months later, the danger was played out again.
On October 21, 2021, the US Starlink-2305 satellite changed orbit again inexplicably, still flying in the direction of Tiangong Station, we had to implement emergency collision avoidance on the same day, and finally "passed by" with this satellite, thrilling avoidance.
The importance of the space station to a country is self-evident.
It is China's space laboratory and space home port, but also the crystallization of China's decades of space industry, is the painstaking efforts of generations of astronauts, not to mention that at this moment, it also carries China's three top Chinese astronauts.
A little carelessness can have unimaginable consequences.
In order to find out the truth of the two "accidents" in a timely manner, on December 3, 2021, the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations (Vienna) sent a note to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The diplomatic note, which refers to the form of letters of international exchanges, is an important means of diplomatic involvement, and in this note, we describe in detail the experience of SpaceX's Starlink satellites maneuvering to the orbital altitude of the Chinese space station several times.
In this, people find it suspicious.
Previously, everyone thought that the Us Starlink-1095 satellite was relatively close to the Starlink-2305 satellite and the Tiangong, which led to this accident, just like two cars in the adjacent lane were in a car accident because they changed lanes and "did not light".
But in fact, they are very far apart – both satellites have an orbital altitude of 555 kilometers, while China's Tiangong station is located at an altitude of 382 kilometers.
It's like you're driving in the East Second Ring Road, and suddenly someone from the West Third Ring Road chases you up, which is really puzzling.
Even more suspicious is that one of the satellites, Starlink-1095, fell into the atmosphere on September 20 after colliding with Tiangong Station, but the other satellite, Starlink-2305, returned to an altitude of 555 kilometers.
This can't help but make people wonder, these two dangerous collisions with the Heavenly Palace Station, is it really just a coincidence, or is it a deliberate act?
01
When it comes to SpaceX's current identity, it is not much the same as everyone's impression.
On the night of June 3, 2020, the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, fell silent, with hundreds of pairs of eyes staring intently at a huge screen.
Five minutes later, people began to hug and celebrate in the empty hall.
A few kilometers away, a Falcon 9 rocket plunged straight into the sky, sending the eighth batch of 60 Starlink satellites into Earth's orbit.
With the successful launch of these 60 satellites, Musk's starlink has 482 satellites in orbit on the Earth, and he himself has become the "strongest man in the world" of the satellite network.
But a more important development for him than this is that on May 20, 2020, the U.S. Army signed an agreement with SpaceX to use Starlink to transmit data in military networks for a period of three years.
In other words, SpaceX received orders from the U.S. Army.
"This agreement, called CRADA, is overseen by the C5ISR Center of The Combat Capability Development Command at the Aberdeen Test Site in Maryland," the U.S. Army source said.
And this has also made everyone's previous worries a reality.
At the beginning, the reason why the United States launched the Apollo moon landing program with national strength was precisely to get rid of the shadow of soviet satellites.
Because of the leading space technology, the Soviet Union could see almost every corner of the world at that time, and the most common sentence in the American movies of that era was: Damn the Soviets saw us in the sky, and there was nothing we could do.
But now, SpaceX's Starlink program, with 482 satellites — 12,000 in the future — could also "snoop" anywhere on Earth.
But before everyone could react, the second contract came.
Three months later, in August 2020, SpaceX signed another $1 billion contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to launch a new rocket for the Space Force.
The Space Force is the sixth branch of the U.S. military after the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, and will be the first new service in the U.S. Military since the Formation of the Air Force more than 70 years ago.
More critically, SpaceX has replaced the United Launch Alliance (ULA) – everyone who has heard of the ULA company knows that since 2006, they have monopolized the US government's launch business and can take food from this company, and SpaceX's position has obviously changed.
In October 2020, SpaceX "hooked up" with the Pentagon again.
They signed a $149 million contract with the Pentagon to build four of the world's most advanced missile-tracking satellites for the latter in the future.
These satellites can not only use anti-missiles, but also track stealth aircraft.
In addition, Musk's SpaceX company has signed a contract with the Department of Defense to develop a 7500 mph rocket for the latter, which can enable rapid point-to-point transportation of 150 tons of "cargo" in a few minutes around the world.
Using such a high-speed rocket, it could travel from Florida to Afghanistan (7,652 miles) in about an hour, according to the Times. By comparison, the U.S. C-17 transport aircraft travels at a top speed of 590 miles per hour, costs $218 million and takes 15 hours to travel from Florida to Afghanistan.
More recently, the U.S. Space Force SSC awarded SpaceX a $14.47 million contract to develop a "prototype project" for the Starship Raptor engine.
Having won several military contracts in just one year, one wonders how the space transport company, which has only been founded for a few years and under the banner of "commercial aviation", has gained the trust of the U.S. government and the military?
Is this also a coincidence?
02
When it comes to the coincidence between SpaceX and the military, it goes back much further.
On February 21, 1972, a plane quietly landed at Beijing Airport after a bumpy taxi.
After the door opened, a line of men dressed in black flashed out of it quickly, and then drove away in the blink of an eye.
A week later, the Sino-US Shanghai Joint Communiqué published an article saying that US President Richard Nixon had arrived in Beijing, which also represented a new stage in Sino-US relations.
After leaving China, Nixon's trip did not end, but turned north.
On May 26, 1972, former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev and visiting US President Richard Nixon signed an important bilateral treaty in Moscow, the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems.
The contract, which contains 16 paragraphs, is centered on ensuring a nuclear deterrent against the other side by prohibiting the development of a nationwide anti-missile system.
In July 1974, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the Soviet-U.S. Protocol on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense Systems in Moscow, stipulating that both sides could only establish an anti-missile system around their capital or around an intercontinental missile launch base.
Only 20 years later, the United States "tore up" this contract with its own hands.
In March 1999, both houses of the United States Congress passed a bill on the deployment of a national missile defense system. In 2001, as soon as the Bush Administration took office, it repeatedly and conspicuously stated that the United States would develop and deploy a national missile defense system, and repeatedly stated that if the "Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty" was not amended, the United States might withdraw from the Treaty.
On August 23, President Bush also announced that the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty prohibits the United States from developing a missile defense system, which hinders the development of the United States' "peace-keeping" capability, and the United States will withdraw from the treaty when it deems it convenient according to its own schedule.
On December 13, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush officially announced at the White House Rose Garden that the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed with the Soviet Union in 1972, which entered into force six months later.
Coincidentally, Musk, who is in California at this time, is planning to create SpaceX.
In January 2002, Musk officially founded SpaceX.
In June 2002, the U.S. government formally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and was no longer bound by the Treaty, removing obstacles to the large-scale development and deployment of new weapons such as missile defense systems.
That same year, SpaceX, which has 160 employees, announced that it had been awarded a contract for an indeterminate delivery time/uncertain number of deliveries from the U.S. Air Force, which purchased $100 million worth of launch services from the company.
After that, coincidences began to happen one after another.
According to the timeline compiled by Baiyunju, in 2006, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced that SpaceX won the first phase contract for commercial rail transportation services (COTS).
In April 2008, NASA announced that SpaceX had been awarded a maximum $1 billion launch services contract.
In December 2012, SpaceX announced that it had signed two national security space launch contracts with the U.S. Air Force Space Missile Systems Center.
In April 2016, the U.S. Air Force awarded SpaceX its first $82.7 million national security space launch contract.
In 2016, the National Reconnaissance Agency said it had purchased launch services from SpaceX.
In March 2017, SpaceX won the launch contract for its third GPS Block III satellite.
In February 2019, SpaceX was awarded a $297 million U.S. Air Force national security contract.
In March 2019, the U.S. Air Force awarded SpaceX a $28 million contract to conduct a military service demonstration and verification of StarLink over a three-year period. In November 2019, the U.S. Air Force conducted early low-orbit technology validation tests on the Starlink, which included direct interconnection of satellites and U.S. Air Force fighter antenna arrays.
At 15:24 on May 30, 2020, SpaceX successfully launched The Dragon Spacecraft 2 on the Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39 and successfully docked with the International Space Station, achieving the first manned spaceflight in history by a "private" space company.
On June 16, 2020, foreign media reported that Space Exploration Corporation (SpaceX) recently reached an agreement with the US military to use SpaceX's "Starlink" satellite swarm to conduct communications tests for the US Army.
During this time, SpaceX has been able to take advantage of the U.S. government's huge investment in space launch facilities to operate at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, and Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Are these all coincidences?
03
On February 28, 2020, Florida held its annual meeting of the American Air Force Association.
Unlike in the past, the conference was packed with media reporters from all over the country, all of whom came for one guest, and that was Musk.
"The foundation of war is the economy." Musk said to an audience member in Orlando. "Without fundamental innovation, the United States will be second militarily."
Speaking about the threat from China, he stressed the importance of "space leadership" for the United States to maintain a dominant military position, and highlighted in particular, "We must make 'Starfleet' come true." ”
However, Musk's "Starfleet" is not going well in reality.
The Starship rocket launch site is located in Boca Chica, in southern Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, but is surrounded by a large number of fish and wildlife, including turtles and migratory birds.
The relocation of SpaceX has attracted the dissatisfaction of environmentalists.
Starting last year, a coalition of 11 environmental groups signed an open letter on Nov. 1 asking the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to review SpaceX's expansion plans on the ground.
The groups say it's close to areas with unique ecological structures, including a national wildlife sanctuary, tidal flats where several birds inhabit and beaches where turtles nest.
On December 29, 2021, Musk SpaceX's goal of launching the Starship large rocket earlier this year was also delayed as U.S. regulators postponed the EIA Agenda Environmental Assessment program by two months to February 28 next year.
However, since the pace of your own progress has been hindered, you must block the way of others.
According to SpaceX's plan, they will launch about 12,000 starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit, a network of satellites consisting of three layers of satellites located in orbits 340 kilometers (7518), 550 kilometers (1584) and 1150 kilometers (2825) above the ground.
As human activity expands into space, these satellites stare at any of the chasers like "mines."
For example, before the Tiangong Station accident, the satellite of "Starlink" almost collided with the European Space Agency's "Fengshen" Earth observation satellite.
In June 2019, SpaceX said it planned to de-orbit three Starchain satellites in order to "test the spacecraft's propulsion system."
Three months later, on September 2, 2019, the European Space Agency tweeted describing an encounter between the meteorological satellite Fengshen and the Starlink-44 satellite: "For the first time ever, the European Space Agency has carried out an 'emergency collision avoidance' operation. ”
That time, the "Wind God" raised the flight altitude and crossed the "StarLink-44" to avoid danger.
Later, some media quoted sources as saying that "Starlink-44" is one of the 3 satellites that "actively" de-orbited.
After that encounter, the European Space Agency noted that while it was possible to "manually" avoid spacecraft collisions, it would not be sustainable once more satellites, such as more in the Starlink program, entered orbit.
In April, the Starlink satellite nearly collided with the Uk's OneWeb satellite.
In fact, the Starlink satellite has been implicated in about 1,600 spacecraft proximity events, accounting for half of all spacecraft events.
But Musk's explanation for this is that "space is very large and satellites are very small" and that "the situation now is not that we are effectively stopping others in any way." We're not stopping anybody from doing anything [in space], and we don't want to do that either."
Musk also compared the number of satellites in space to "2 billion cars on Earth's surface," saying that space still has "room for tens of billions of satellites": "A few thousand satellites is nothing, just like a few thousand cars on Earth, it is nothing." ”
But the Financial Times, citing an astrophysicist, argued that satellites need larger clearances than cars to safely avoid collisions.
Nine months ago, nasa said it had signed an agreement with SpaceX to activate its autonomous collision avoidance function in cases where the Starlink satellite might dangerously "pass by" NASA's spacecraft.
And SpaceX needs to notify NASA at least a week before launching the Starlink satellite.
For the spacecraft of other countries to rampage to the right, only the United States is respectful.
Are all of these coincidences?
End
Musk has always played the role of "Sino-US ambassador" and has never spared praise for China.
In June last year, after the three astronauts of Shenzhou XII successfully entered the Tianhe core module of the Tiangong space station, Musk left a message under the overseas social media account of Xinhua News Agency to express congratulations. He said: "This is a huge achievement! ”
In May, after Tianwen-1 successfully landed on Mars with the Zhurong rover, Musk also left a message under the overseas social media account of Xinhua News Agency: "Congratulations! Going to Mars is very difficult. ”
In July 2021, Musk left a message on social media: "The economic prosperity china has achieved is truly amazing, especially in terms of infrastructure!" I encourage people to visit and witness in person. ”
At a recent media summit, he was even more vocal about China, saying its economy could be 2 to 3 times the size of the United States in the future.
Musk's personality is notorious, but such an attitude toward China is obviously not unrelated to the fact that we pulled Tesla aside in the darkest hour.
On January 7, 2020, the United States had a CES launch, but Musk chose to fly across the ocean for more than a dozen hours to China.
His public itinerary is "domestic Model 3 owner delivery", he took the stage to speak, but unexpectedly stripped and danced, and even the live commentary did not know how to describe the scene for a while.
Musk was very happy and said something like this: Without China's support, there would be no Tesla today.
This sounds like a foreign guest speaking with knowledge of China's national conditions, but if you look back at Musk and Tesla's 2019.
It was simply a year of being saved by China.
It is China's policy, China's speed and the Chinese market that save Tesla from the "edge of bankruptcy".
However, in addition to speaking "beautifully", musk now seems to be posing a huge threat to China.
The supersatellite program under Musk's leadership began as a global high-speed network service, but gradually evolved into a "space enclosure" movement — the Starlink program included a total of 42,000 satellites, and a total of 9,000 satellites and spacecraft launched into space in human history.
With the deepening of its cooperation with the military, coupled with the encounter with the Chinese space station, and even excluding other mass-produced "suicide satellite" bombs in space, the original "starry sky communication chain" has become the "starry sky chain" of the Americans.
It turned out that this was yet another conspiracy and trickery of the militarization of space in the name of false freedom.
To evaluate a person's good or bad and position, we should not only listen to what he said, but see what he did.
Of course, we never doubt Musk's Mars dream, but the beneficiaries of this dream are not so much all of humanity as the U.S. government, or the Space Force and NASA, and the new space strategy behind it.
A program that is becoming increasingly apparent to serve U.S. strategic interests in space is accelerating under the eyes of the world.
If it is allowed to continue to grow barbarically and expand wantonly, the costs of the future will also be increasing.
If you continue to be deceived and confused by this elaborately packaged "Mars colonization project" scam, there will be more and more coincidences in the future like the beginning.
And every "coincidence" can completely disintegrate an already fragile spacecraft.
Every "coincidence" can make the efforts of thousands of astronauts go to waste.
Every "coincidence" can ruin the latest achievements in human space exploration.
At one time, countless people around the world, especially the extensive and simple Chinese, put aside their national and cultural prejudices and chose to recharge Tesla for Musk's dream of "changing the world" and "benefiting the earth".
Unexpectedly, Musk took the funds to monetize "selling faith" and built bullets to hit the Chinese space station.
Is the dream of aviation for all mankind qualified only to be realized by the United States?
Is it possible that any country that explores "changing the world" and "benefiting the planet" before the United States will be "suicide attacked"?
Does Musk really think that these "small actions" of him and the US authorities can hide the world from the sea?
Or is Musk betting on the IQ and memory of global consumers, especially Chinese consumers:
Perhaps, in Musk's view, the vast majority of people can't see through the truth, and even if they see through, they will quickly forget. Afterwards, everyone will respect him as the "light of mankind" and will continue to buy Tesla.
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