According to foreign media reports recently, the 49 Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX in the United States on February 3, of which nearly 40 failed to enter the intended orbit. This launch is the 36th launch of SpaceX's Starlink satellite, and there will be no mistakes in the eyes of all sectors of society. But it is precisely because of the drastic changes in the outer space environment that the satellites launched this time have almost all failed and fallen into the atmosphere. Previously, SpaceX claimed that its launch technology is quite mature, and Starlink satellites do not pose a threat to spacecraft in other countries. But according to China's Foreign Ministry, SpaceX's satellites have created a threat to the operation of the Chinese space station. In addition, a large number of SpaceX satellites have become space junk, and Americans who have always slandered China in outer space activities have been caught by the world.
According to SpaceX's previous plan, the entire StarLink plan will launch more than 12,000 satellites to provide Internet services for users around the world. As SpaceX grew, the number of satellites in the entire Starlink program increased to 42,000. All starlink satellites are only under 50 kilograms, which means that the satellites launched by SpaceX do not have the ability to change orbits autonomously. This, combined with the poor reliability of these satellites, will have a security impact on satellites in low Earth orbit around the world. Once other countries' low-Earth orbit satellites collide with starlink satellites, they will cause irreparable damage. In fact, since the beginning of the Cold War, most of the satellites launched by human beings into outer space have become space junk. The United States, which had the advantage during the entire Cold War, "contributed" the vast majority of space junk, and the space junk around the earth has seriously affected the normal operation of satellites in various countries.
Of the 49 Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX, 40 of them have become space junk. To some extent, this not only shows that SpaceX's technology is not as mature as rumored, but also shows that the United States is still the world's largest space junk "contributor" to this day. Prior to this, the United States had always slandered China as the biggest influencer of the outer space environment in terms of international public opinion. U.S. space officials have claimed in various public places that China's space activities have affected the peaceful use of outer space by other countries. We need to know that the United States was one of the first countries in the world to establish a space force. In fact, such an act by the United States has violated the decisions of various United Nations conferences on the peaceful uses of outer space. The United Nations believes that every country has the right to develop its own space industry, but it cannot militarize outer space. During Trump's presidency, the U.S. Space Force was not only independent of the Air Force, but also became the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. This means that the United States has violated the global consensus on the peaceful use of outer space.
The mainland's space industry has always followed the UN Charter, not only has not carried out the process of space militarization, but also chose to cooperate with a large number of countries to carry out scientific research activities, such as a large number of scientific research projects in other Western countries, including France and the Netherlands, on the mainland's space station. SpaceX launched the starlink satellite, to the normal operation of the continental space station poses a huge security threat, the continental space station in order to avoid collisions with the starlink satellite, has been carried out preventive collision avoidance control, such preventive control, greatly consume the fuel consumption of the continental space station. From the macro perspective of the peaceful use of space by all mankind, the slander of the United States and many launches that do not have much meaning have actually affected and hindered the pace of the development and utilization of space by all mankind!
In fact, in addition to being caught this time, the malicious slander of china's aerospace by the United States in recent years can be described as an endless stream! Last year, in order to better serve the strategy of building a space power, the mainland conducted simulation experiments on recyclable spacecraft, but China's normal launch mission was almost "broken in the sky" in the eyes of Western hegemonic countries. Some so-called "well-known Western media" have shouted that "China is running for a hypersonic missile test," and even senior Western officials and experts, including US President Biden and defense minister, have even spread rumors and not drafted them, adding fuel to China's normal space tests as China's "Star Wars." Despite the open and unequivocal debunking of rumors by official bodies, including China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the "China threat" is still rampant.
In addition, the Americans have nakedly aimed the "sanctions" means at China's aerospace! In 2021, China Aerospace carried out a total of 55 launches, ranking first in the world. Among them, the Long March series rockets as the national team carried out forty-eight launch missions, all of which were successful. Just as Chinese celebrated the victory, the red-eyed Americans "stabbed in the back." On January 21 this year, the "Federal Chronicle," a US website with an official background, released a document saying that the US Government would announce on the same day that it would use the pretext of "proliferating missile technology" to impose sanctions on the three entities of the First Research Institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, the Fourth Research Institute of the Aerospace Science and Industry Group, and poly Technology Corporation, and the sanctions measures included freezing assets in the United States and prohibiting relevant personnel of the group from entering the United States mainland.
Why did the aerospace jun emphasize that the US sanctions on China's spaceflight are a red-eyed move? In fact, since the beginning of China's aerospace industry, self-reliance and independent control are one of our most important development standards. It cannot be said that the sanctions imposed by the Americans have no impact, but from the overall perspective of China's aerospace development, such sanctions do not have much significance. After all, for such a high-tech field as the aerospace industry, the core technology must be firmly in their own hands, and such a concept has run through the history of China's aerospace development from beginning to end. In addition, there is another important reason for the "red eyes" of Americans, that is, Chinese use a quarter of the funds of Americans to complete major achievements that the United States has not completed. The United States, which is eager to eat "white food", wants to "white prostitute" Chinese data in many core areas, so the trick of sanctions has vividly demonstrated the "little wisdom" of Americans. For example, the United States previously formulated "Wolff" clauses, blocking the road to Sino-US cooperation. But after China's brilliant space achievements, the United States more than once wanted to claim key data and asked China to share the lunar soil with the United States, completely forgetting the "Wolf" clause.
The number of Americans who are careful and who punch themselves in the face is too numerous to mention. As for the usy's throwing of "garbage" into space this time, the mainland also submitted a relevant note to the United Nations. However, as everyone expected, hegemonic countries will not easily bow their heads and admit their mistakes! After determining the operation of the SpaceX Starlink program satellites, posing a security threat to the operation of the continental space station and the astronauts stationed on the space station. In a note to the United Nations in late January, the United States denied the security threat of its Starlink program to the continental space station and said that the activities of the Starlink satellites did not meet the threshold of the established emergency collision standards, so emergency notice was not required in either case. This kind of behavior is actually the perfect embodiment of the United States' application of hegemony to outer space, coupled with the failed launch of the Starlink satellite, which shows that the United States is now one of the biggest obstacles to human exploration in outer space.
In general, whether it is nasa, or SpaceX, its space activities have greatly affected the peaceful use of outer space by other countries and organizations, and the space development of the United States has not been considered from the perspective of all mankind, they have just taken space as another stage for their scientific and technological hegemony. We cannot deny that the United States made a certain contribution to human exploration of space in the space hegemony during the Cold War, but now the United States has become an obstacle to human exploration of space, which has explained the hegemonic thinking of the United States. The mainland is also willing to establish a long-term communication mechanism with the United States to ensure the stable operation of the continental space station and the safety of astronauts. However, during the launch of the Starlink satellite by SpaceX, the disregard for NASA's solar wind observation report has reflected that SpaceX is not worthy of the name. Coupled with the U.S. government's disregard for SpaceX's launch, it shows that the United States will be the biggest obstacle to human exploration of space in the future.