{"id":239562,"date":"2026-01-11T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:21:08","slug":"china-applies-to-put-200000-satellites-in-space-after-calling-starlink-a-crash-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239562\/","title":{"rendered":"China applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese firms have signalled plans to launch more than 200,000 internet satellites, filing submissions with a UN agency just as Beijing accused Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX<\/a> of crowding shared orbital resources.<\/p>\n

A dozen or so submissions from various Chinese satellite players were filed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the end of last month.<\/p>\n

The biggest projects \u2013 CTC-1 and CTC-2 \u2013 were for 96,714 satellites each and filed by the newly established Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilisation and Technological Innovation.<\/p>\n

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01:11<\/p>\n

SpaceX launches another test flight of its mega Starship rocket<\/p>\n

SpaceX launches another test flight of its mega Starship rocket<\/p>\n

The institute was registered in China\u2019s northern Hebei province on December 30, the day after it submitted its ITU filings, according to the Radio Association of China.<\/p>\n

The United States and China have been racing to launch internet satellite megaconstellations in recent years, with the US-based SpaceX taking a big lead with its Starlink constellation, which accounts for most of the satellites in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

But radio frequency bands and orbital slots in low Earth orbit are limited, and first movers for those resources can gain priority.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the US Federal Communications Commission announced it had given SpaceX the green light to launch a further 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n

Those satellites must be in orbit by the end of 2031 and would bring SpaceX\u2019s total to 15,000 satellites. Starlink has applied to the FCC to launch 30,000 satellites but a decision has been deferred on the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese firms have signalled plans to launch more than 200,000 internet satellites, filing submissions with a UN agency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2102,114,6162,39660,121429,121426,605,121432,23346,121431,121427,23727,61,36867,60,38354,121428,82,121430,247,2306,1390,115,121425],"class_list":{"0":"post-239562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-china-mobile","11":"tag-collisions","12":"tag-ctc-1","13":"tag-ctc-2","14":"tag-elon-musk","15":"tag-emposat","16":"tag-fcc","17":"tag-guodian-gaoke-science-and-technology","18":"tag-guowang-network","19":"tag-hebei-province","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-international-telecommunication-union","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-itu","24":"tag-qianfan-internet-megaconstellation","25":"tag-science","26":"tag-shanghai-spacecom-satellite-technology","27":"tag-space","28":"tag-spacex","29":"tag-starlink","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-xiongan-new-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}