Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week

Published: (December 15, 2025 at 04:53 AM EST)
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Source: The Verge

Source: The Verge

Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX

A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters of one of the roughly 9,000 Starlink satellites currently operating in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is laying the …

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