China says SpaceX could give the U.S. military a head-start on the battlefield
, the official English-language news website of the Chinese Armed Forces.
The article states that SpaceX has an ambition to use the Starlink satellite internet service"for military purposes" and that this should"put the international community on high alert." It goes on to state that Starlink"claims to be a civilian program" but that SpaceX has cooperated with the U.S. military to test how well Starlink satellites could connect with military aircraft and to see whether Starlink could transmit data across military networks.
A photo shows a SpaceX Falcon rocket on launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in February, 2018. Currently, SpaceX regularly launches dozens of Starlink satellites and operates over 2,100 of them.It is true that SpaceX has been working with the U.S. military with Starlink.
In addition, the U.S. Army said in February that it was using Starlink to"provide tactical network speeds of up to 70 megabits per second" with reduced lag time compared to military satellite communication.also voiced concern about the sheer number of Starlink satellites that are planned to be in orbit—up to 42,000."SpaceX is undertaking an enclosure movement in space to take a vantage position and monopolize strategic resources," the article read.
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