China could launch 13,000 satellites to "suppress" and spy on Starlink | The satellites could carry "anti-Starlink payloads"

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What just happened? China has expressed its distaste for Space X's Starlink satellite service on several previous occasions. "Ren Yuanzhen, a researcher with the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications, last year wrote that China should develop hard and soft kill methods for destroying Starlink satellites, which he suggested could have military applications that include allowing drones and stealth fighter jets to increase their data transmission speeds by more than 100 times. It also suggests the Chinese government cooperate with other nations to form an anti-Starlink coalition and demand that SpaceX publishes the precise orbiting data of Starlink satellites

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