{"id":430473,"date":"2026-01-22T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:08:08","slug":"the-chinese-satellites-spacex-says-were-on-collision-course-with-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430473\/","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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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":2,"featured_media":430474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,3686,5225,225436,225437,225438,20553,225439,225441,116692,131459,40637,225440,128,285,8524,5437,5707],"class_list":["post-430473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-chinese-anti-satellite-missile-test","tag-collision-avoidance-manoeuvres","tag-ephemerides","tag-fcc","tag-honghu-2-satellite","tag-hongqing-technology","tag-itu","tag-kessler-syndrome","tag-landspace","tag-long-march-6a-rocket","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-debris","tag-spacex","tag-starlink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}