China's "space tugboat" [China praise]
According to Deutsche Welle (DW), in January this year, a continental satellite (Practice-21) captured an old satellite (Beidou G2) in orbit more than 20,000 kilometers from The Earth, and discarded it a few days later into a "graveyard" orbit more than 30,000 kilometers away, that is, to throw the scrapped satellite outside the earth! There is little danger of old satellite collision spacecraft there.
It is very interesting that we chose to implement this "space tugboat" technology in the United States during the day, although the United States is curious, but its ground observation equipment is difficult to effectively observe due to strong sunlight, so the specific process in the United States is not very clear.
Launched in October 2021, some foreign experts believed that the satellite was not simple and should be used to clear the orbit of space and protect the operation of the satellite. The Beidou G2 satellite failed shortly after it took off in 2009.
The Practice-21 satellite can move up more than 10,000 kilometers in long-distance maneuvers, indicating that it can be unimpeded in outer space orbit, so in the future, whether it is a US Starlink satellite or a spy satellite, any attempt to approach the continental space station and satellites, etc., there is no door. If it dares to come, China Practice-21 can "drag it away" and make it "scrapped". Even if necessary, we can go to the American satellites to visit the door [laughs] @ can't stop the time
[Current practice-21 orbits over the equator at the same speed as the Earth rotates, approximately above the Congo Basin in Africa.] 】
