Many people's cognition of Musk is still at the Tesla level, the emergence of Tesla has indeed revolutionized the automotive industry, completely subverted the traditional automobile industry, and now more and more consumers buy Tesla, but at the same time we also need to be wary of Musk.
In addition to the Tesla card, Musk has another trump card is the space transportation company SpaceX, which has a Starlink project, which plans to launch 12,000 satellites into space by 2024, with the ultimate goal of launching 42,000.
According to the latest news reports, the total number of Starlink satellites has reached 4,105, of which 439 will be launched in more than two months in 2023, accounting for about 11%.
It can be seen that Musk is accelerating the frequency of launching satellites to reach the target launch number as soon as possible. At the same time, the American conspiracy began to surface.
Previously, some media reported that during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, SpaceX provided Ukraine with a large number of satellite communication equipment and high-speed Internet services for Ukraine, and almost all of Ukraine's middle and senior commanders had one.
So in the face of Russia, which is several times stronger, Ukraine not only was not defeated, but also began to attack, in the past year or so, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is still continuing, Russia has no way, it can be seen that Musk's Starlink has brought a lot of help to Ukraine.
In fact, long before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Musk's military ambitions were already highlighted.
SpaceX received funding from the U.S. Air Force as early as 2019, signed an agreement with the U.S. Army in 2020, and received a $150 million military satellite research and development contract.
Since then, SpaceX has decided to increase the number of Starlink satellites from 12,000 to 42,000, to enclose the entire low-Earth orbit, Musk's unrestrained expansion and military use, ambitions have become very obvious.
Although Musk has repeatedly stressed that Starlink is a purely "civilian" system and will not be used in the military, the outside world also agrees that Starlink is the predecessor of the US 6G network, but in fact, the biggest customer of the Starlink project is the US military!
This so-called civilian satellite system is actually a conspiracy of the United States, and Musk even threatened that Starlink could directly take over and tamper with Russian software, so that Russia's nuclear weapons were completely muted. Foreign media also said that once Starlink completes the deployment, no country will be spared.
Just like the Earth monitored by Tomoko in "The Three-Body Problem", the world's technology may be monitored by the American Starlink, and if that is the case, all deployments will be completely invalidated, which is indeed a worrying scene.
The reason why the Starlink system is so powerful is mainly because Musk occupies space resources, you must know that by the end of 2022, the total number of spacecraft in orbit in the world is only 7218, and Musk's Starlink occupies more than half of the number.
If Musk launches 42,000 satellites into space, he will completely control space resources, and all future space operations will be monitored by the United States one by one, if you dare to disobey the order of the United States, you can use satellites to change orbit to attack you, and the United States will become a veritable "space hegemon".
Imagine that with tens of thousands of satellites watching over our heads every day, everything on Earth will have no secrets to speak of, which is extremely frightening for all countries.
In addition, Starlink satellites are also a set of missile interception networks, which can carry out collision interception of intercontinental missiles, which is why Musk dares to bluntly silence Russia's nuclear weapons, coupled with the strength of the strong command and communication network, once the deployment is completed, the consequences are unimaginable.
In short, if Musk's Starlink plan is successful, it will be difficult for other countries to launch satellites in the future, because the entire low-Earth orbit has been woven into a network by Starlink, and satellites and weapons that other countries fly out of the atmosphere will be killed by Starlink.
Fortunately, in the face of the US conspiracy, we have already intervened, in 2021 the mainland project code "GW" Chinese version of Starlink, planned to launch 12,992 satellites in low Earth orbit, according to earlier information, the project launch site will be opened in 2024 and launched for the first time.
Once the launch site is completed, the mainland's space-based networks will retaliate against the United States, and their every move will also be within our surveillance range. Therefore, if the United States wants to become a "space hegemon", it depends on whether China agrees. What do you think about this, welcome to comment, like, share.