{"id":133185,"date":"2021-12-28T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-faces-backlash-in-china-after-close-encounters-between-his-starlink-satellites-and-chinese-space-station"},"modified":"2021-12-28T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T18:23:08","slug":"elon-musk-faces-backlash-in-china-after-close-encounters-between-his-starlink-satellites-and-chinese-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-faces-backlash-in-china-after-close-encounters-between-his-starlink-satellites-and-chinese-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Faces Backlash In China After \u2018Close Encounters\u2019 Between His Starlink Satellites And Chinese Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-faces-backlash-in-china-after-close-encounters-between-his-starlink-satellites-and-chinese-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Elon Musk is facing criticism in China after the country recently complained that its budding space station, which is still in construction, had two \u201cclose encounters\u201d with satellites launched by SpaceX\u2019s Starlink program earlier this year. The Chinese space station was twice forced to take evasive action in order to avoid collision with satellites launched by Musk\u2019s rocket company SpaceX, according to a document submitted by China to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Though the claims have not been independently verified and SpaceX is yet to respond, China alleges that its space station had to implement \u201cpreventive collision avoidance control\u201d both on July 1 and October 21 when faced with oncoming Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, China informed the U.N. Secretary-General that the close encounters with Starlink satellites \u201cconstituted dangers to the life or health of astronauts aboard the China Space Station.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk is facing criticism in China after the country recently complained that its budding space station, which is still in construction, had two \u201cclose encounters\u201d with satellites launched by SpaceX\u2019s Starlink program earlier this year. The Chinese space station was twice forced to take evasive action in order to avoid collision with satellites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1495,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-health","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}