China is working on a program to destroy Starlink satellites

In China, there has been talk of fighting against Starlink satellites for several weeks.The party believes that they

may pose a threat to the security of the PRC. Now the military is working on a special program that will allow the destruction of SpaceX satellites.

What is known

Wrote about it in an article in Modern magazinedefense technology. Its authors believe that other states can use satellites for military purposes. Researchers want China to have two ways to defend against Starlink. Soft involves breaking the software. Hard - physical destruction of satellites. In particular, missiles.

The article talks about the ability to trackeach individual satellite. The authors of the material believe that this will eliminate the possibility of launching weapons into orbit along with a new batch of Starlink. At the same time, Chinese scientists tend to use soft methods of struggle. And this is due to two factors.

First, physical destruction will lead tolarge amounts of space debris. Secondly, the elimination of several satellites will not disrupt the operation of the Starlink system, which includes 2500 satellites.

Source: space.com

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