Researchers working on strategy to neutralise reach of network established by billionaire Elon Musk Researchers state China strategies to construct a substantial satellite network in near-Earth orbit to supply web services to users around the world — and to suppress Elon Musk’s Starlink. The task has the code name “GW”, according to a group led by partner teacher Xu Can with the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Space Engineering University in Beijing. But what these letters stand for is uncertain. The GW constellation will consistof 12,992 satellites owned by the recently developed China Satellite Network Group Co, Xu and his coworkers stated in a paper about anti-Starlink steps released in the Chinese journal Command Control and Simulation on Feb15 The launch schedule for these satellites stays unidentified, however the number would competitor the scale of SpaceX’s prepared network of more than 12,000 satellites by2027 Xu’s group stated the GW satellite constellation was mostlikely to be released rapidly, “before the conclusion of Starlink”. This would “ensure that our nation has a location in low orbit and avoid the Starlink constellation from exceedingly pre-empting low-orbit resources”, they composed. The Chinese satellites might likewise be put in “orbits where the Starlink constellation has not yet reached”, the scientists stated, including that they would “gain chances and benefits at other orbital altit
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