China- Elon Musk Space Tussle

• Recently, Chinese citizens lashed out against Elon Musk’s space programme, after China complained that its space station had to take evasive action in order to avoid collision with satellites launched by Musk’s Starlink programme.

• As per China, satellites from Starlink Internet Services had two close encounters with Chinese Space Station on July 1 and October 21.

• To prevent collision and for safety reasons, Space Station of China implemented preventive collision avoidance control.