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China slam Musk’s ‘space warfare’ after satellite near-misses

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Beijing | Elon Musk has been accused of “space warfare” after some of the satellites he launched for a groundbreaking global internet project had a near-miss with China’s new space station.

Satellites from Starlink Internet Services, a division of Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company, had two “close encounters” with the Chinese space station in July and October, according to a document submitted by China to the UN’s space agency earlier this month.

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