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You said that in this case, the space exploration company will take the initiative to provoke the Infinite Gravity Group. This kind of thing is almost the same unless the entire senior executive of their company is mentally disabled.

Although the market value of the space exploration company has not declined in recent years due to technical reasons, it has risen to the current high market value because of various capital operations.

But their company also offended many people for this business plan. Many people, including telecommunications operators, astronomers and governments in various countries, were very disgusted with this plan.

Does Infinite Gravity Group have more advanced satellite communication technology?How is it possible that their own communication system is now at least ten years more advanced than the communication systems of other countries, but even so, Infinite Gravity Group has not been involved in the communication industry.

Because the communication industry is very sensitive in any country, and the supervision is very strict. Although Lei Tiantang is not afraid of trouble, he does not want to bludge with people every day in communication security and information security. Very good.

He is neither short of money nor means of making money. Why should he go to this muddy water?

If the space exploration company does not have the support of the old US government and the old US military, they want to successfully launch so many satellites into space orbit is simply impossible!

According to the latest data from the United Nations Satellite Registration website, there are currently about 5,800 artificial satellites still in orbit, but in this figure, the Space Exploration Company’s Starchain satellites account for 2,300.

Even if the space exploration company's star chain satellite network is in accordance with the previous plan of 12,000 satellites, it will increase this number by nearly three times.

In similar projects, "Star Chain" is not the only participant.So many satellites are competing for the natural starry sky, which has caused a lot of criticism in the astronomy community.

A frequently cited example is a large integrated sky survey telescope worth $466 million, 8 meters wide and equipped with a 3.2 billion pixel camera, originally used to scan the sky in the 1920s.

However, with the formation of the Starlink Satellite Group, many of the images taken with this telescope have been "contaminated" by them, and the photos taken by long-term exposure may contain dozens of satellite movement trajectory stripes.

The large survey telescope simulated the impact of the future 42,000 star-chain satellites on observations and found that 30% of the images would contain at least one satellite trajectory.

These satellite devices that "clogged" space annoyed astronomers. They found it more and more difficult to observe space from the ground, because the reflected light of the satellite blocked the field of view.

Some space agencies even consider letting companies like Space Exploration pay for each satellite launched, hoping to reduce the spread of "space junk".

And the main reason for Infinite Gravity Group's aversion to the space exploration company's Starlink satellite system also comes from this, because it is obvious that the company's land observatory is also deeply hurt when it probes the universe.

It's just that as the company sent more space probes into Earth orbit and farther space, and even started to build a large astronomical telescope detection system on the moon, the company's astronomers would be too lazy to talk to them again.

At this time, the company's ground observation system has changed from the initial main exploration method to an auxiliary exploration method. It is better to devote energy to exploring the universe with that effort. Anyway, these star chain satellites are not too good for them. Many influences.

Their influence can be solved by the company's money and technology, but astronomers in various observatories that are difficult to build with funding, donations, and financing everywhere cannot accept this.

Launching outer space probes is not a simple matter for them. The ground observation observatory is still their main observation method, so they are the most disgusted by this passing satellite.

The International Astronomical Union issued a statement long ago, expressing concerns and protests that such projects may damage the natural sky and interfere with the frequency of radio astronomy. In the statement, the association described this space frontier as "new And basically unregulated."

Since no one thought that the number of satellite launches would grow so fast, regulation has yet to keep up with this nascent field. The reason why space exploration companies are moving so fast is partly because of the use of the current regulatory vacuum before the rules appear , Seize the opportunity to the greatest extent.

Another question is, do communications satellite projects need to be so large?In their view, the only reason to launch more satellites than actually needed is to show off, because from the perspective of the public and fundraising, more is better.

But the space exploration company and the old US military reached an agreement a long time ago to use the space exploration company's "Star Chain" satellite cluster to conduct communication tests for the old US Army.

Space Exploration Company agreed that the old US Army will conduct a communication test on the company's "Star Chain" low-orbit broadband constellation. After all, this satellite system will consist of thousands or even tens of thousands of satellites. If it is integrated into the existing US military system This will inevitably bring a tremendous improvement to the US military’s communications security and monitoring system.

With the results of multiple rounds of tests being good, after the old US military has begun to use these satellites, it is clear that the space exploration company has obtained the permission of the old US government and the military to have greater freedom to "pollute" space, otherwise they It is impossible for the company to launch 2,300 satellites in just a few years.

After all, Lao Mei will spare no expense for "national security", no matter how boring the reason given is, this is why neither the governments of various countries nor those astronomical institutions' various protests can play a major role.

This is why Lei Tiantang and Jiang Yuting judged that the old US government and the military were behind the crash of their company’s satellite.

After all, it is not the first time that the old and American governments are so crazy. Before long, the old and American governments implemented a plan that is even more crazy than the Starlink satellite network, that is, the West Ford needle plan.

In order to compete with the former Soviet Union for space development capabilities during the Cold War, the Lao Mei government planned to pour 430 million copper needles into space. The purpose is to use these high-density space metal objects to help Lao Mei propagate its medium and short-wave radio in space. signal.

But the result was a slap in the old and the beautiful. These copper needles deviated from orbit not long after they were launched into space, and many of them fell into the atmosphere and burned.Later, Lao Mei traced the reason and discovered that it was the scientists who did not consider the effect of light pressure on the copper needle.