China has launched the first batch of satellites for a mega-constellation designed to rival SpaceX's Starlink.
enterprise on Monday launched the first batch of satellites for a mega-constellation designed to rival US company SpaceX’s Starlink’s near-global internet network, a state-backed newspaper reported.
The competition to occupy Earth’s lower orbits also has military implications, with the potential to affect the balance of power between warring countries.Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology The launch is part of SSST’s “Thousand Sails Constellation” plan, also known as the “G60 Starlink Plan”, which began last year and aims to deploy more than 15 000 low-Earth-orbit satellites.
Starlink, operated by billionaire Elon Musk, has tens of thousands of users in the US so far and plans to add tens of thousands more satellites to its system, the largest of its kind.Chinese researchers in the People’s Liberation Army have over the past two years studied the deployment of Starlink in the war in Ukraine and repeatedly warned about the risks it poses to China should the country find itself in a military conflict with the US.
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