China: Space Station Deviated Twice Over Starlink Satellite Near Collision – IT Pro – News

Then you just badly planned your launch.
Yes, it is definitely the case that SpaceX wants to launch its satellites directly into the Chinese space station. It is absolutely not a communication problem.

I don’t know if it gets better if you didn’t plan it that way, but still fly right past it Then you have no control over your launches.

I am not a fan of the Chinese regime, but that does not mean that I by definition condemn them for everything that is in the news. In this case, I can imagine that they are exasperated by Musk’s actions. It just gets really busy with all those billionaires wanting to set up their own communications network. Bezos is working on it, Musk is launching satellites, and there are more parties that are working on this. It seems almost unregulated, because anyone with a little bit of knowledge about space travel understands that this creates a huge crowd.

Dodging space junk is something everyone has to live with by now, but dodging planned launches is pretty bizarre, isn’t it? Would you also have been so relaxed about the whole situation if it had been the other way around, that the ISS had to dodge twice for a Chinese launch? Regardless of which nation is complaining and who is causing the situation, this shouldn’t be happening.

But China was not even allowed to join the IIS. The fact that China is now showing that they are there is precisely because the US has always tried to contain them.
That’s right, but since when is that an excuse? China is showing good progress, but don’t lie about making room corrections. What I want to make clear is that this is political drama, not space travel….

I do not agree, although it is impossible for me to check whether it really had to be diverted and what the situation is in detail.

And I would like to point out that China was by no means the first to destroy a satellite in space. That was… the US in 1985! It’s in the same lemma you linked to.
Error, corrected. But you miss my whole point. The Russians, the Indians, and so on, have also tested satellite weapons. The point is that you should not whine about space corrections if you yourself are responsible for space waste through outright use of weapons in space. The US, RU and CH can all no longer use that argument.

Space junk != active satellites.

China has its eyes on space to show they are superior. And nothing will stop them from doing so. Yes, they are pissed at the Americans for never being allowed to join the ISS, but that’s no excuse for acting so irresponsibly.

The problem is that if you try to keep a country small (which we actually do with Russia too), that country becomes more and more motivated to prove itself and assert itself. The dictator/government will then remark (rightly or wrongly) that the whole world is against them and that the country needs to flex its muscles. And that is exactly what China is doing now. Is that good? Of course not, but there are two sides to the story.

They launch uncontrolled non-reusable rockets full of toxic and dangerous fuel over countries that have not authorized them and have no idea where they will end up.
No idea why you’re defending that…

Adding a bit of nuance is not wrong. If you think that propaganda only exists in Russia and China, you are wrong. The Chinese I have met are very proud of their country and what they can do. It is ingrained in their culture that taking a gamble is fine. I have worked with the Chinese for years and have sometimes benefited from that: they are not afraid to try something that the more conservative Western companies do not dare to do. In this way they sometimes also make very large steps. Again: the lack of value for human life is not good, nor is it good to go against international conventions, but we in the West are also very good at pushing these kinds of countries into a corner.

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