Musk's success in electric vehicles and SpaceX has made up for some inherent shortcomings in the development of the United States and greatly enhanced the strategic competitiveness of the United States. Starlink technology itself is not wrong, the wrong thing is that the people who use it are the US military, there is nothing wrong with liking Tesla electric vehicles, and turnip greens have their own love. But what is the mentality of people who sing the praises of Huawei's 5G while waving the flag for the Starlink plan? We do not blindly oppose, and insignificant matters can seek common ground while reserving differences, but when it comes to threatening our own interests, we must take a firm and clear stand!
Let's not talk about its military value, the civilian side of StarLink has no market prospects in China at all, do you know how much fiber coverage in China? 93%！ The United States is only about 25%, I have only heard of people who are reluctant to install broadband, I have not heard of anyone who cannot connect to broadband. A total of 1.559 million 5G base stations have been completed and opened in mainland China, and the 5G network has covered all prefecture-level cities and county-level urban areas in the country. From the perspective of latency, the test delay of 5G can reach 1 millisecond, which is about ten times more optimized than 4G technology, while the delay of StarChain is similar to the 4G level, and the minimum delay is 18 milliseconds, so 5G technology has obvious advantages in application scenarios and delays.
With 5G and fiber perfectly meeting everyday demand, I wonder what is the purpose of those who are cheering for StarLink? The application scenario of StarLink is for areas not yet covered by terrestrial Internet communications, and only 3% of the global population can use StarLink. Do you want to use StarLink to bypass the national network surveillance and carry out some illegal and criminal activities? The key means for each country to deal with various color revolutions and terrorists now is to shut down the communication network and cut off the communications between anti-government and terrorists from the outside world. The existence of Starlink can invalidate these means, and anti-government people and terrorists can still maintain communication capabilities through Starlink when the communication network is closed.
Why does the United States continue to suppress Huawei 5G? Its fundamental intention is to develop the Space Internet as one of the strategic options for the United States to overtake in curves and take the lead in entering the 6G era. From a higher level of national strategic competition, if Starlink plans to further accelerate deployment, and can break through the decoding of new technologies to achieve low latency comparable to 5G technology, then it will produce enough competitiveness in the commercial market to directly threaten the application and promotion of existing global 5G network technology. At that time, the United States may use the means of the "technology + market" alliance to promote StarLink, and exclude 5G technology represented by Huawei from the global next-generation communication network market on the grounds of "national security" and "values". If this is the case, China's huge investment in research and development of 5G technology, including Huawei's world's first 5G patent number, will not only fail to achieve global "market spillover", but also the possibility of becoming an "island technology" will be greatly increased, including China's large investment in the global sunk costs and industrial value chain will also be destroyed.
This is only the potential threat of starlink in the civilian field, the threat in the military field will only be higher than civilian, I believe many people have not forgotten, last year the starlink satellite has twice approached the Chinese space station, posing a serious threat to the safety of our astronauts, the focus is that each "starlink" satellite is equipped with kryptonian ion thrusters, with a mobile variable orbit function, if it is equipped with sensors, robotic arms, warheads, lasers, microwaves and other weapons and equipment, it can carry reconnaissance and surveillance, soft killing, and other weapons and equipment on the continental satellite and space station. Hard destruction and other combat operations.
The terrible thing is that there are still people who naively think that SpaceX is an ordinary private enterprise, in 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense Space Development Agency and SpaceX, signed a $149 million contract, including the construction of 4 ballistic missiles and hypersonic missile detection and tracking satellites, the U.S. Pentagon has put the Starlink program, into the missile launch tracking satellite construction program framework, it can be said that SpaceX launched more than a thousand satellites, only 5% can be used by other private enterprises Most of the remaining satellites are for the U.S. military, and many people seriously underestimate the military value of StarLink.
In the past, the cost of each high-orbit satellite was often more than one billion, and because of its high value and low emissivity, kinetic anti-satellite weapons gained an anti-satellite advantage. For example, the US GPS system has only 24 satellites, and once a large number of kinetic satellite interceptors attack them, it will paralyze the US global navigation positioning and timing communication system, and cause a fatal blow to the global force deployment and multi-domain joint operations of the US military. The tens of thousands of satellites scattered by the star chain can make the advantage of kinetic energy interception weapons no longer exist. In order to attack the "Starlink", the manufacturing and maintenance costs of kinetic energy anti-satellite weapons will be unaffordable. Moreover, once a number of satellites are destroyed, a large amount of debris is generated, an impact that is difficult for any country to accept. In 2018, the United States conducted a simulated test of the Starlink interception intercontinental missile, and the test results showed that 350 incoming intercontinental missiles were successfully intercepted by the "Starlink".
And once the more than 40,000 satellites of StarLink are deployed, they will fill the entire low-orbit region with space junk, thus threatening the survival of other satellites, and even affecting human plans to launch higher-orbit satellites into space, the most serious consequence of which is to directly affect the ability of countries around the world to explore space in the future, completely locking humans on the earth for hundreds of years.
Finally, I would like to emphasize that what I hate is the use of Starlink against the U.S. military in China, not starlink technology itself. I wrote this article in response to fans in the message area asking me what I think of StarLink, and second, to guide everyone's values, no matter what views you hold, please take a firm and clear stand on some major issues of right and wrong, because if this country is difficult, your life will become a mess. And you shout for the enemy, and the enemy's missiles don't change direction because of your kneeling licking. (Written by self-work number: industrial science and technology control)