{"id":136310,"date":"2022-03-03T04:52:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/china-complains-of-close-encounters-with-spacex-starlink-satellites-conducts-preventive-maneuvers-to-avoid-collisions"},"modified":"2022-03-03T04:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:52:20","slug":"china-complains-of-close-encounters-with-spacex-starlink-satellites-conducts-preventive-maneuvers-to-avoid-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/china-complains-of-close-encounters-with-spacex-starlink-satellites-conducts-preventive-maneuvers-to-avoid-collisions","title":{"rendered":"China complains of close encounters with SpaceX Starlink satellites, Conducts preventive maneuvers to avoid collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-complains-of-close-encounters-with-spacex-starlink-satellites-conducts-preventive-maneuvers-to-avoid-collisions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX Starlink satellites twice approached the Chinese Space Station (CSS) in orbit, prompting China to warn of \u201cclose contacts\u201d with Elon Musk\u2019s space program.<\/p>\n<p>Both the July 1 and October 21 incidents prompted the Chinese spacecraft to perform collision avoidance maneuvers. The Chinese team told the UN secretary-general in a diplomatic statement they provided earlier this month that on both occasions there were crew members on board, \u201cwhich might represent a hazard to the lives or health of astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch on April 29, the CSS \u201cTiangong\u201d has maintained a nearly circular orbit at a height of around 390 kilometers with an orbital inclination of about 41.5 degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX Starlink satellites twice approached the Chinese Space Station (CSS) in orbit, prompting China to warn of \u201cclose contacts\u201d with Elon Musk\u2019s space program. Both the July 1 and October 21 incidents prompted the Chinese spacecraft to perform collision avoidance maneuvers. The Chinese team told the UN secretary-general in a diplomatic statement they provided earlier [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"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-136310","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\/136310","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}