All countries in the world have never stopped exploring and understanding outer space, and if any country can make good use of outer space, it will inevitably bring great help to its own country in many aspects. So when everyone still thinks that the years are quiet, in fact, the battle for space has already begun.
If we let Musk's Starlink program continue, it may launch 42,000 satellites into space by 2027, seizing more than 80% of the near-Earth satellite craters. If the United States uses these satellites for military purposes, it will pose a serious threat to other countries on the earth, so is Musk's starlink program mainly based on science, or is he hiding the wolf ambitions of the United States? Today's content may subvert everyone's perception of satellites.
Since the establishment of the United Nations, every country has a conventional rule, that is, in the use of low-Earth orbit, everyone is on a first-come, first-served basis, no matter which country launches satellites in low-Earth orbit, who occupies the area first, the area belongs to it. And now Musk is greatly using this rule to frantically occupy the pit. In fact, in addition to The company Tesla is widely known, Musk also has a very good company called Space X, which is a rocket maker. Musk has a dream that he uses the rocket company to launch more than 40,000 artificial satellites into the near-Earth space region and create a star-chain program that covers almost the entire earth.
Then on the earth, there are national borders, the sea has territorial seas, and the sky has territorial airspace, which is basically divided. You like the Antarctic and the Arctic, are all countries under the agreement to carry out peaceful joint development and exploration, but the space region is different, that is the new world, as said at the beginning, we do not have the concept of space field, are the satellite probe vehicles of various countries first-come, first-served principle. Then the reason why this principle can be greatly carried forward is also due to the promotion of the United States, because the United States is riding on the dust in the field of aviation and space, while many other countries are beyond the reach of the dust, to put it bluntly, the United States wants to rely on its own advanced and developed aviation technology and scientific and technological level to monopolize the space field.
In this case, we must also strive to improve our own scientific research level and seize the time to seize the low Earth orbit. According to relevant data, there are currently more than 7300 artificial satellites in all space, of course, most of them are American, and most of the other parts are launched by the Soviet Union and the European Space Agency, China actually only accounts for 400, but at least we also occupy some positions, such as India and other developing countries are not much at all, because their own aviation field is not up to this technology.
Let's go back to the real purpose of Musk's Starlink project is actually obvious, you think that once more than 40,000 artificial satellites have covered the earth, then the low-Earth orbit will soon be robbed by the United States, what do you let other countries do? And Musk is very chicken in this regard, it launched some satellites in the sky, many of which are low cost, the purpose is to occupy the position. Although Musk has only successfully launched 1900 so far, some scientists have analyzed that the limit capacity of the entire low Earth orbit is about 50,000, and you see that Musk himself wants to account for more than 40,000, and you let other countries have no place to go.
We say that Musk has launched these 1900 starlink satellites in the sky, and once created more than 1600 dangerous approaches in a month, and among so many dangerous approaches, none of them are close to the satellites of the United States, and it is Musk who takes his cheap satellites to touch the expensive and important valuable satellites of other countries.
For example, in April 2021, the Starlink satellite and the British satellite passed head-on, the nearest distance was only 57.9 meters, and then a month later, on May 16, a Starlink satellite suddenly adjusted its altitude and maliciously entered the orbital altitude of the continental space station.
At such a fast speed, if the 260-kilogram satellite hits, the damage is incalculable. At that time, in order to ensure the safety of astronauts in the space station, we also avoided unknown injuries and losses, so the continental space station had to spend expensive fuel to change orbits and avoid the congestion of starlink satellites. As more and more satellites are launched by the Starlink program, I think there may be more and more behavior similar to this kind of plugging in the future.
You see how Musk himself explained afterwards, he said it was just a manipulation error, but who would believe such a far-fetched reason? You think that satellites in modern warfare are equivalent to the existence of the eyes, and if you really want to be sure that the United States may use its cheap satellites to collide with you one by one, anyway, they have many satellites in the sky and are cheap, so does this mean that the United States can dominate space? The point is that its satellite cost is too low, and it doesn't cost too much money.
In addition, the starlink satellite can even intercept 350 intercontinental missiles, we know that the intercontinental missile in the second half of the flight speed can reach 30 times the speed of sound, you want to intercept it, it is best to intercept it in the first half of its launch, that is to say, when it is just launched, it has not reached the highest speed to intercept it, but the icing missile is often vertically ascended to the sky after take-off, directly out of the atmosphere, and then fly to the target, unless you can put the interception system on the launch country's mainland, otherwise you have no chance to intercept it.
But if you have enough NEOs outside the atmosphere, you can try to intercept ICIs. In 2018, the United States once simulated the Starlink interception icing missile, the results of the simulation test showed that 350 intercontinental missiles sent from all over the world Starlink all intercepted successfully, and the cost of the Starlink satellite is far lower than the cost of anti-missile interception, although this is only a simulated test, but we can guess that if the Starlink plan is all established, it is likely to become an anti-missile weapon of the United States. And so many satellite networks can also enable live broadcasting of any war.
In addition, if the Starlink project is really completed, then in the future, if other countries want to launch their own satellites or rockets, there may not be much space in the sky for you. You must know that if Musk has more than tens of thousands of satellites in low orbit, these positions will be occupied by him. At that time, the United States can sit on the ground and start from the ground, even if other countries want to launch to the higher level of the satellite orbit, it will have to pass through the lower layer, and then it will have to call Musk's satellite to make room for you first, so that you can fly to a higher orbit, otherwise your rocket will not be able to penetrate the low orbit layer, and the time of launch will not have to be discussed with the United States, which is unimaginable for various countries.
It can be said that the United States almost under the banner of Musk personally wants to occupy the entire space territory, is there no other good way for other countries? In fact, there is no need to panic, we have begun to step up the development of our own satellites and rockets, as soon as possible to establish our own space field, as long as we do faster than others, first to occupy the pit, we can make the Starlink program not so easy to succeed.
At present, we have declared two sets of low-orbit satellites, a total of more than 12,900, although the total number is more than 42,000 without Musk, but we are stronger than satellites in terms of performance size and strength. In addition, we not only have mature satellite capture technology, but also successfully tested anti-satellite missiles as early as 2007, which can be said that the heart of harm cannot be had, but we cannot lack the skills of defense.