www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
The Chinese military must be able to destroy SpaceX’s Starlink satellites if they pose a threat to national security, according to an April publication by Chinese military researchers.
The researchers speculated that US military drones and stealth fighter jets could boost their data transmission speed by more than 100x using the Starlink network. Notably, SpaceX has signed a contract with the US Department of Defense to develop technology based on the Starlink platform – which includes instruments sensitive enough to track hypersonic weapons traveling at 5x the speed of sound or faster.
The paper also recommends developing a satellite surveillance system with ‘unprecedented scale and sensitivity’ in order to track every Starlink satellite, according to the South China Morning Post.
