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Chinese scientists call for plan to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites

Chinese military researchers have called for the development of a hard kill weapon to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system. The researchers drew attention to Starlink's huge potential for military applications and the need for China to develop countermeasures to surveil disable or even destroy the growing satellite megaconstellation. Starlink is a broadband satellite internet network developed by Musk's SpaceX company that aims to beam internet access to customers anywhere in the world. SpaceX has put more than 2300 of them into low-Earth orbit and the company plans to send up to 42000 satellites into space.

The Chinese researchers were particularly concerned by the potential military capabilities of the constellation which they claim could be used to track hypersonic missiles dramatically boost the data transmission speeds of U.S. drones and stealth fighter jets or even destroy Chinese satellites.
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