China aims to launch nearly 13,000 satellites to suppress Elon Musk s Starlink, researchers say | South China Morning Post

Researchers say China plans to build a huge satellite network in near-Earth orbit to provide internet services to users around the world and to stifle Elon Musk s Starlink.

The project has the code name GW , according to a team led by associate professor Xu Can with the People s Liberation Army s (PLA) Space Engineering University in Beijing. But what these letters stand for is unclear.

The GW constellation will include 12,992 satellites owned by the newly established China Satellite Network Group Co, Xu and his colleagues said in a paper about anti-Starlink measures published in the Chinese journal Command Control and Simulation on February 15.

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That doesn’t seem very sociable of the CCP. Elon got there first, after all, and he does use your slave laborers for his batteries, right? I would say our civilization has the better claim, given that you want to make everybody live in termite mounds. Yep, we win. Go Elon and the USA.