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China irate over space station "close encounters" with Musk satellites
CBS News ^ | 28 December 2021

Posted on 12/28/2021 4:21:46 AM PST by zeestephen

Tiangong, China's new space station, had to maneuver to avoid colliding with one Starlink satellite in July and with another in October, according to a note submitted by Beijing to the United Nations space agency this month...The note said the incidents "constituted dangers to the life or health of astronauts aboard the China Space Station."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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According to Wiki data, Musk satellites orbit at 210 miles, and China's space station has a lowest orbit of 240 miles.

What force or launch procedure would send two rogue Starlink satellites into China's orbit?

1 posted on 12/28/2021 4:21:46 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

LOL. This is rich, coming from the people who launch rockets into space right over the tops of elementary schools filled with young children, murdered tens if not hundreds of millions of its own citizens, and thinks nothing of blowing up one of their satellites causing a dangerous debris field.


2 posted on 12/28/2021 4:27:28 AM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: zeestephen

Maybe the slanty eyed communist bastards oughtta learn how to drive. Sheesh.


3 posted on 12/28/2021 4:28:51 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: zeestephen
What force or launch procedure would send two rogue Starlink satellites into China's orbit?

F = ma ?

4 posted on 12/28/2021 4:29:44 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: zeestephen

What happens when you dissolve an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water in space? Here’s the answer from the first space lecture in Tiangong Space Station (CSS).

https://twitter.com/i/status/1468873391214149636

Space station lecture with English subtitles
http://youtu.be/61O9muzSf-k


5 posted on 12/28/2021 4:30:14 AM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: zeestephen

Hey Commies, blow it out your a$$.


6 posted on 12/28/2021 4:36:06 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: zeestephen

Starlink orbits at 340 miles according to everything I read, about 100 miles above the Tiananmen, oops I mean Tiangong space station. Someone isn’t telling the whole story here.


7 posted on 12/28/2021 4:40:52 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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If we had a legitimate media, Americans would read of and see regularly the astounding progress of the Chinese space programs. We would, AND SHOULD BE, very concerned.

Instead, we get a constant stream of . . . well, you know the thing.”


8 posted on 12/28/2021 4:53:56 AM PST by oldplayer
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Someone isn’t telling the whole story here

NO ONE is telling the whole story here.

Anyone remember Glomar Explorer?

9 posted on 12/28/2021 5:00:28 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets........Now, we are them.)
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YES, absolutely! It was fascinating listening to Robert Ballard talk about it, and his search for HMS Titanic.


10 posted on 12/28/2021 5:27:03 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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Re: "Starlink orbits at 340 miles"

I went back and read the entire Wiki article.

The 210 mile orbit is for their SECOND orbital license for 7,518 satellites.

The original orbital license is for 4,425 satellites at a 750 mile orbit.

11 posted on 12/28/2021 5:29:16 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: rlmorel

AND the people who gave us COVID, killing a million people or more, sickening most of the world’s population,and turning this planet upside down and changing the way we live, maybe forever.
Damn them.


12 posted on 12/28/2021 5:31:52 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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Absolutely. I have nothing against individual Chinese, but the Communist Chinese must be made into international pariahs.

The Chinese Communists are a malignant toxin to humanity.


13 posted on 12/28/2021 5:38:07 AM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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Re: "Anyone remember Glomar Explorer?"

Absolutely.

That would have been the hardware intelligence coup of the century if they had pulled that off.

Most likely we will never know the whole story in our life time.

Some researchers say the entire sub was recovered, some say more than half, and the official story is just 38 feet of the sub was recovered.

14 posted on 12/28/2021 5:44:50 AM PST by zeestephen
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“Hey Commies, blow it out your a$$”.

That’s right. The Chinese of today make the Third Reich look like pikers. Most people just don’t understand or know it.....yet. They will.


15 posted on 12/28/2021 5:47:42 AM PST by laplata
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To: rlmorel

“The Chinese Communists are a malignant toxin to humanity”.

Correct. Stalin, Mao and Hitler were pikers compared to them. Most people don’t know that or understand it.....yet. But they will.


16 posted on 12/28/2021 5:51:45 AM PST by laplata
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To: zeestephen

I went back and read the entire Wiki article.

wiki : an always dependable, accurate and truthful resource


17 posted on 12/28/2021 6:04:53 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: telescope115
RMS Titanic. She was a Royal Mail Steamship, not one of His Majesty's Ships, which is reserved for commissioned vessels of the Royal Navy.
18 posted on 12/28/2021 6:10:14 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: rlmorel

Agree!


19 posted on 12/28/2021 6:15:37 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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Re: "wiki: an always dependable, accurate and truthful resource"

On political and historical issues, obviously, they have a Hard Left bias.

On science and technology issues, they footnote everything, but they often organize the information in a confusing or chaotic way.

I use Wiki every day for science, technology, and business questions.

20 posted on 12/28/2021 6:16:01 AM PST by zeestephen
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