New Delhi: There is a risk of clashes between several countries, including the United States and China, in space. There is a situation where space is becoming the center of accidents or the battlefield. This is not fiction, it is real.
Over the past month or two, the International Space Station, the Chinese space station, and the satellite have been experiencing head-on collisions. Conflict has been avoided by taking emergency measures and changing the location of space stations.
The satellite that collided with the Chinese space station was owned by Elon Musk, an American businessman and Tesla owner. China said in a complaint to the United Nations earlier this month that a satellite of the Muskin Starling Project was about to attack the Chinese space station.
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This is not the first time a space station and satellite have collided. One such collision occurred on July 1 and the second on October 21. China’s space station has taken the necessary steps to prevent a collision. ” SpaceX’s Starling is a group of more than 1,700 satellites. Its purpose is to make the Internet accessible in most parts of the world.
Earlier in November this year, Russia shot down its own satellite ‘Tselina-D’ into space to test one of its anti-satellite missiles, as NASA continues to claim that debris in the space station continues to rise. Thus adding thousands of new junk items. Thousands of pieces of debris emanating from a Russian satellite began to move around the International Space Station, threatening to collide with the ISS.
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The importance of avoiding conflict
The International Space Station orbits the Earth at an altitude of 420 kilometers per hour at a speed of about 17,000 miles per hour. If even a small straw hits at this speed, heavy damage is likely to occur. So even small conflicts should be avoided.
Weapons accumulating in space
Several recent U.S. media outlets reported that China was deploying weapons in space. Following this, China has increased its operations in space. At the same time, China is making similar allegations against the United States. If this happens, space could become a very unsafe place and war could break out in space.
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An anti-satellite missile is launched from Earth to destroy inactive satellites in space. This technology is available in many countries of the world, but only the United States, Russia, China and India have been able to test it successfully so far. In March 2019, Indian scientists successfully conducted a test to shoot down a satellite in space.
At the same time, India plans to build a space station by 2030, which will be a unique space station. That is, space is no longer a ‘vacuum’ and is now becoming a place of garbage, weapons, and war environment accidents. It is also worth noting that if war breaks out in space, it will have a major impact on our daily lives as well.
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