{"id":535836,"date":"2026-01-23T00:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/535836\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T00:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T00:57:12","slug":"the-chinese-satellites-spacex-says-were-on-collision-course-with-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/535836\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese satellites SpaceX says were on collision course with Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small number of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/chinas-space-programme?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese satellites<\/a> and space debris forced <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/spacex?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>\u2019s <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/starlink?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Starlink<\/a> fleet to execute a large number of collision avoidance manoeuvres last year, as both sides complained of safety challenges from rival internet megaconstellations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Such manoeuvres consume fuel and shorten a satellite\u2019s lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report filed by SpaceX with the US <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/federal-communications-commission-us?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Communications Commission<\/a> on December 31, Starlink satellites performed 148,696 collision avoidance manoeuvres between June 1 and November 30 last year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Among the top 20 individual space objects that Starlink satellites had to adjust for, seven from China accounted for 3,732 manoeuvres, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small number of Chinese satellites and space debris forced SpaceX\u2019s Starlink fleet to execute a large number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9710,9191,237036,237037,237038,36397,237039,237041,142359,207469,33013,237040,159,44852,2527,11182,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-535836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","10":"tag-chinese-anti-satellite-missile-test","11":"tag-collision-avoidance-manoeuvres","12":"tag-ephemerides","13":"tag-fcc","14":"tag-honghu-2-satellite","15":"tag-hongqing-technology","16":"tag-itu","17":"tag-kessler-syndrome","18":"tag-landspace","19":"tag-long-march-6a-rocket","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-space-debris","22":"tag-spacex","23":"tag-starlink","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115941700072127603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}