"Infighting" between NASA and Space X?
As we all know, some time ago, due to the relationship between solar magnetic storms, 40 starlink satellites of Space X were destroyed. Just recently, NASA warned that Musk's satellite program may cause serious congestion in space.
Specifically, 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX on the 3rd of this month de-orbited and burned down the next day due to the impact of solar magnetic storms, with an estimated loss of $20 million. So in fact, not long ago, the company's "Starlink" plan has been criticized by several countries.
Unexpectedly, this week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also "can't stand it", writing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expressing concern about SpaceX's second-generation "Starlink" program, saying that its plan to deploy about 30,000 satellites may lead to "serious congestion" in space, increase the risk of satellite collisions, and may interfere with NASA's scientific research activities.
From this point of view, is NASA a little afraid? Because many of their space missions are in a form similar to "outsourcing", in recent years, Musk has been ambitious, vigorously developing manned space technology, preparing to launch a manned spacecraft to Mars in the next two years or so.
The Starlink plan, which plans to launch tens of thousands of satellites, has only completed a small half now, and if it continues, space congestion will be inevitable. So this time the warning is also that they themselves are afraid.
We know that although space does not have ownership rights, and the norms for space are actually not very perfect, so many parties often have contradictions, and they will blame each other for their own interests.
In particular, some satellites that have been launched for a long time are themselves on the verge of decommissioning, and if they are used as space junk, they will cause damage to other spacecraft in operation, and the consequences will be unimaginable, and the impact will be very huge.
This is the most typical thing that in July and October of the year, the Starlink satellite, the two close to the Chinese space station, if we did not take emergency avoidance measures, it would be very dangerous.
With more and more star-chain satellites, they are all in low-Earth orbit, although they all have their own orbits, but once there is a little control problem, there will be a chain reaction, even if it is a 10 cm diameter fragment, it will cause great damage to spacecraft like the space station.
So this time even NASA began to stand up to express concern, I believe that in the next time, Musk should have some convergence, which is actually a good news relative to the Chinese space station, we never take the initiative to cause trouble, not that we are afraid of things, because we have our own space program and arrangements, do not want to mix with them.
Especially now that our space station is in full swing, Shenzhou XIII sent back good news a few days ago, returned in April, when Shen XIV will quickly complete the construction of the space station, then the international space is about to be retired, our space station will be the most expensive spacecraft in space, plus a few astronauts, there is no room for loss!
Some time ago, the successful video of our experiment in space junk capture that flowed out on the Internet was praised by netizens, because for small space debris can be captured, in the future, catching those artificial spacecraft that maliciously approach should not be a problem!