On Tuesday, Beijing accused the United States of ignoring international obligations and engaging in reckless and dangerous actions in space two years later. A close encounter between China’s Tiangong space station and a satellite launched by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Beijing is urging the United States to take appropriate action after the incident involving SpaceX’s Starlink satellite, which he said posed a serious threat to life. and the health of the astrologers.

In a document submitted by Beijing to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOASA) in early December, Beijing said that the Tiangong Airport will move to avoid Starlink satellites in July and the second in October this year. In addition, the document said that China’s space station should take “anti-counterfeit monitoring” during “two near misses” as the satellites changed into orbits that forced the Tiangong crew to change.

According to the document, these accidents caused danger to the life and safety of the astronauts in Tiangong and requested the Secretary General of the UN to distribute the above statements to all member states and space agreements.

Starlink aims to provide internet

A division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX company – Starlink – operates a constellation of nearly 2,000 satellites. Also, it has the authority of the American government to launch up to 12,000 satellites in a program that aims to provide most of the world with Internet access.

Beijing’s agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) states that parties to the Outer Space Convention, which is the foundation of outer space law, bear international responsibility for the actions of non-state actors and individuals. government and space. Strategies to reduce the risk of collisions in space are becoming increasingly important due to the number and speed of launches, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell said. Starlink is a big part of that, McDowell said, adding that it’s unique to the country “complaining through a press release.” Any collision should completely destroy Tiangong Airport.

The People’s Republic of China has been a major contributor to space debris, McDowell said. Several times in the past decade, the International Space Station had to escape part of the Chinese military’s anti-satellite test in 2007. It’s not like the Chinese have enough records there, he added.