The US Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX) recently released news that due to the impact of geomagnetic storms caused by the solar wind, about 40 "Starlink" satellites that the company just launched on February 3 have or are about to deviate from low Earth orbit and fall into the atmosphere and burn. However, because the manufacturing cost of a single "star chain" satellite is not high, even if the satellites are all scrapped from the amount of money, the impact on spaceX with deep pockets is not large, and the accident mainly hits SpaceX's Internet constellation ambitions.
According to the company, the "Starlink" program is the best embodiment of SpaceX's ambitions in the field of Internet constellations, according to the company, the plan is designed to provide cheap, fast broadband Internet services, is the largest constellation project proposed so far, as early as January 2015, the company's CEO Musk announced its intention to launch about 12,000 communications satellites into the sun orbit, and just a few days ago the "Falcon 9" rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida sent 49 "Starlink" satellites into low-Earth orbit.
According to public data, by the end of 2021, SpaceX has a total of 1798 "Starlink" satellites in orbit, and in 2021 alone, the company will send 989 into space orbit. The "Starlink" low-orbit Internet satellite constellation is in full swing, but as more and more "Starchain" satellites are launched into space, it has also triggered concerns about space collision accidents, only last year, the "Starlink" satellite was approached the Chinese space station twice, and the Chinese side took the initiative to avoid collision measures to avoid accidents.
The "Starlink" is dangerously close to other spacecraft again and again, and people can't help but think deeply, whether it is to change the way the world is connected and promote the advancement of human space exploration technology, or to try to expand in space and create dangerous accidents in space. In fact, from spaceX's close ties with the US military, it is enough to see that the "StarLink" plan has never served all mankind, but the interests of the United States, to put it bluntly, behind the "Starlink", it is actually the ambition of the United States to seize the resources of space orbit.
The reason why SpaceX as the apparent leader to carry out this project is actually to cover up the us "space enclosure" program, the European Space Agency Director General Ashbach has previously pointed out that the United States is taking advantage of loopholes in the International Telecommunication Union regulations and the imperfection of the international space governance system to accelerate the seizure of limited satellite orbit resources. The United States is trying to set rules in space, but space is not an extralegal place, and the international community will unite to restrain the barbarism of the United States in space.
In addition to the game in the field of outer space, the main energy of the United States is now focused on geopolitical competition, for example, for a long time, "Taiwan to control China" as an important part of its clamping down on the development of Chinese mainland. Under its influence, even many small European countries have begun to play the "Taiwan card" against Chinese mainland, including Lithuania and then Ireland, and on December 1 last year, the Irish Senate brazenly passed a Taiwan-related resolution, openly shouting that "China will not be allowed to use non-peaceful means to complete reunification."
After the passage of the Taiwan-related resolution, Ireland recently extended its black hand to China's Xinjiang. According to the Lianhe Zaobao on February 10, the Irish Parliament Senate yesterday passed a Xinjiang-related motion, announcing the recognition of the so-called "verdict" of an unofficial independent british body on Xinjiang affairs. In this regard, the spokesman of the Chinese Embassy in Ireland said that it is firmly opposed to the gross interference of a small number of Irish parliamentarians in the Senate in China's internal affairs based on false information, and urged the Irish side to respect objective facts and stop its erroneous behavior.
In less than half a year, Ireland has successively passed Taiwan-related and Xinjiang-related resolutions, which is not just a simple matter of interfering in China's internal affairs with the West, but a naked provocation to China's sovereignty. Given Ireland's relationship with the United States, it is clear that a small number of politicians in the country have repeatedly clamored for such resolutions as a token of submission, using the relationship between China and Ireland as a bargaining chip in exchange for U.S. support, and ireland thinks the same as Lithuania.
On the one hand, The great price that Will Be paid for provoking China's sovereignty is not something it can bear, not to mention that China and Ireland still have extensive economic ties, and the bilateral trade volume between the two countries has exceeded $20 billion last year; on the other hand, through The current situation in Lithuania is enough to see that the so-called support of the United States is not solid, and Ireland's hope to play the "anti-China card" to win the United States is just self-deception.
It is worth vigilance that recently Western countries are intensively exerting pressure on China on Taiwan-related, Xinjiang-related, and Hong Kong-related affairs; just one day before the Irish Parliament passed this Xinjiang-related resolution, Britain jumped out and took the lead and jointly issued a statement with 21 countries, including the United States and Germany, to point fingers at China's Hong Kong affairs. It is not difficult to expect that in the future, more countries will jump out and issue so-called statements to grossly interfere in China's internal affairs, and we need to make a strong response to this to curb this evil wind.