Build Starlink Anti-Satellite Force: Latest Request from China

A researcher from the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications urged China to make the necessary military efforts to remove the Starlink satellites for national security reasons. All in a national peer-reviewed journal.

According to the South China Morning Post, lead author Ren Yuanzhen and colleagues are in favor of Modern defense technology not only because China is developing anti-satellite capabilities, but also because it has a surveillance system that can monitor and track all the satellites of the Starlink constellation.

“It will be necessary to apply a combination of methods to disable some of the Starlink satellites and destroy the constellation’s operating system.scientists explain.

But why? Chinese geniuses have calculated that the data transfer rate of US military stealth fighters and drones could be increased by 100 times. through a connection with Elon Musk’s satellites.

The authors also expressed concern about the ability of Starlink satellites to quickly change orbits using ion thrusters as an offensive measureor that military hardware be disguised as Starlink vehicles and sent into orbit undetected.

That means China will need improved surveillance systems to detect counterfeits and, according to Ren, the ability to intercept Starlink signals to look for threats.

Unfortunately, for researchers with 2,400 satellites in orbit, destroying Starlink will be quite difficult.since the system is vast enough to keep functioning even with hundreds of kills.

While the methodheavy death“like a boarding arm or a ballistic missile, perhaps not the most feasible method”soft death“, such as the use of jamming technology, would be more practical. Today, the practice of jamming satellites is considered a typical military activity.

Although parent company Starlink, SpaceX is privately owned, has contracts with the US Department of Defense, as a reward for creating satellites that track and warn of hypersonic missile launches for the Space Development Agency.

Starlink helped Ukraine connect after an alleged cyberattack wiped out a previous satellite service amid Russian military aggression.

If China closes Starlink, there will be more satellite broadband systems. Amazon’s 3,236 Kuiper Project birds are ready to fly. And in Europe, we have plans to launch a few more.

China is also developing its own mega-constellation called Xingwang, or SatNet. The Chinese equivalent of Starlink was created in 2021 and is expected to contain about 13,000 satellites.