28 February 2022
Last December, China filed a note verbale to the UN claiming that two SpaceX Starlink satellites made close encounters to the China Space Station (CSS). Such events could easily be politicised considering the current geopolitical environment, which does not help solving the real problem in space. Chen Lan tries to analyse technical and management aspects of the event in order to sort things out and see what went wrong.
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