The U.S. is targeting China from all sides, from tariffs to military, and is now even threatening in space, with U.S. satellites breaking into our country’s space sphere in October this year.
Shooting Chinese satellites and space stations has seriously threatened the security of the Chinese space station, but China is not vegetarian, since you shoot me, I will reverse it!
How did China react?
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"Military and business integration"?
In October, the U.S. company Max used their "World Vision Army" satellite to shoot the Chinese space station, and also everywhere to promote high-resolution photos to see 10 centimeters of detail, which operation is not like in the show technology, which is provoking China.
A few days later, the "Jilin-1" constellation of China Changguang Satellite Company directly took a backhand photo of the "Shijing Legion" satellite, and it was clearly taken.How the equipment on the other satellite was arranged, what kind of flight gestures were at the time, all of which are unnecessary, this is a public handshake on the space capabilities of the two countries.
Many people may think that a commercial company just took a photo. As for such a big reaction? But you don't think so when you know the background of Maxar, a company that is a long-time partner of the Pentagon, the White House and the National Reconnaissance Office.
His actions largely represent the official will of the United States.Especially this time, the "Worldview Corps", as an earth-to-earth remote sensing satellite, should have kept a good eye on the earth, but deliberately adjusted its orbit, twisted its body, and ran close to our space station. This action itself is extremely unusual.
Moreover, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office pays an additional US$300 million to Maxa every year. This money is not given in vain. It is to ensure that its four satellites can be called to take photos at any time in an emergency. Its service user base is more than 400,000. This suggests that Max’s satellite has long been used as an operational system for the U.S. military.
This model of “military-commercial unity” has been tested in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and Max’s satellite image sources are continuously being provided to NATO and Ukraine, directly translating into battlefield intelligence advantages.
So this time it came to shoot our space station is a well-planned strategic operation, a realistic operation of the US Space Force's Commercial Space Strategy launched in 2024, with the aim of fully integrating the commercial space force into its operational chain.
And our counterfeit is equally appealing, "Jilin 1" although nominally is also a commercial zodiac, but its "refoulement" has shown mature, systematic sky-based defense capabilities, and the operation of China and the United States shows that commercial satellites are no longer neutral technology, but the latest weapons in the war between the great powers.
More than “see”
This "interaction" event also shows that the rules of the space game are changing, in the past everyone's single satellite performance is stronger than who's camera "see more clearly", the United States this time sending the "World Vision Corps" close to the reconnaissance, is this kind of want to use this set of old thinking to deter.
But this practice is somewhat outdated in today's era,Because China did not send a "better" satellite to compete with it, but directly launched the entire "Jilin-1" constellation system.
As of October this year, the constellation has passed 26 launches, sending 118 satellites into orbit, this scale means it can re-visit almost 40 times a day to any location in the world, and once there is an emergency mission, its response time can be shortened to 11 minutes.
This ability is no longer so simple as to “see clearly,” but rather to pursue a continuous, comprehensive, and immortal state perception.And, of course, behind this is a powerful technological iteration in support, to know now the cost of the new satellite "Jilin 1", only one in 20 of the original products, the weight also dropped from several hundred kilograms.
More importantly, the "Huashan" aerospace model launched this year has given the entire constellation artificial intelligence, which can independently plan tasks and identify targets. Therefore, this reverse photo of the "Shijing Corps" is completely in the hands of China. This confrontation between China and the United States does not depend on whose photo resolution is higher.
Speak with evidence
And space is not a place outside the law!According to the data of the International Telecommunications Union, the near-Earth orbit theoretically can accommodate a maximum of about 60,000 satellites, but only the United States "Star Chain" and "Kieber" such as several major programs, has declared to take up about 7 percent of the orbital resources, "Star Chain" family has declared almost 50,000.
U.S. hegemony has directly led to the extreme danger of space traffic, more than half of the world's spacecraft near-contact incidents, are all triggered by the "star chain" satellites, and in 2021, the "star chain" satellites had two dangerous approaches to our space station, forcing us to take emergency circumvention measures to safeguard the safety of astronauts.
How can China protect itself in this environment? Protests and condemnation alone are obviously not enough, This "Jilin No.1" counter-shoot will be a confrontation, that is, it is "compliance evidence collection". It is clearly recording the other party's behavior, which is telling the United States that any of its behavior will be recorded by China, which will become ironclad evidence in diplomatic occasions and even international courts in the future.
It actually declares that anyone who wants to engage in small tricks in space must be prepared to be "remembered in high definition". This ability is becoming the code of conduct in space in the future.
Look at the world, the space race has already begun.The EU’s IRIS2 program and Japan’s significantly increased budget for low-orbit satellites all indicate that countries have realized that The future voice in space cannot be based on a few advanced satellites, but must come from a country's overall and systematic space-based capabilities.
Whoever has mastered the system, whoever can speak with evidence, has the initiative to the future!
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