{"id":279958,"date":"2026-01-11T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/279958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:11","slug":"china-applies-to-put-200000-satellites-in-space-after-calling-starlink-a-crash-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/279958\/","title":{"rendered":"China applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese firms have signalled plans to launch more than 200,000 internet satellites, filing submissions with a UN agency just as Beijing accused Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX<\/a> of crowding shared orbital resources.<\/p>\n

A dozen or so submissions from various Chinese satellite players were filed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the end of last month.<\/p>\n

The biggest projects \u2013 CTC-1 and CTC-2 \u2013 were for 96,714 satellites each and filed by the newly established Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilisation and Technological Innovation.<\/p>\n

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01:11<\/p>\n

SpaceX launches another test flight of its mega Starship rocket<\/p>\n

SpaceX launches another test flight of its mega Starship rocket<\/p>\n

The institute was registered in China\u2019s northern Hebei province on December 30, the day after it submitted its ITU filings, according to the Radio Association of China.<\/p>\n

The United States and China have been racing to launch internet satellite megaconstellations in recent years, with the US-based SpaceX taking a big lead with its Starlink constellation, which accounts for most of the satellites in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

But radio frequency bands and orbital slots in low Earth orbit are limited, and first movers for those resources can gain priority.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the US Federal Communications Commission announced it had given SpaceX the green light to launch a further 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n

Those satellites must be in orbit by the end of 2031 and would bring SpaceX\u2019s total to 15,000 satellites. Starlink has applied to the FCC to launch 30,000 satellites but a decision has been deferred on the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese firms have signalled plans to launch more than 200,000 internet satellites, filing submissions with a UN agency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[1793,381,7308,62663,141192,141190,18,1647,141195,48775,141194,135213,49242,19,60325,17,61532,141191,133,141193,451,2731,4425,384,141189],"class_list":{"0":"post-279958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-china-mobile","11":"tag-collisions","12":"tag-ctc-1","13":"tag-ctc-2","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-elon-musk","16":"tag-emposat","17":"tag-fcc","18":"tag-guodian-gaoke-science-and-technology","19":"tag-guowang-network","20":"tag-hebei-province","21":"tag-ie","22":"tag-international-telecommunication-union","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-itu","25":"tag-qianfan-internet-megaconstellation","26":"tag-science","27":"tag-shanghai-spacecom-satellite-technology","28":"tag-space","29":"tag-spacex","30":"tag-starlink","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-xiongan-new-area"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115878852942945440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}