The UN has been urged by Beijing to remind the US to abide by the treaty regulating outer space after the US launched two satellites that almost collided with the space station.
Beijing submitted a report to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space earlier this month that said the space station deployed collision avoidance control measures in July and October to avoid colliding with Starlink satellites.
The report submitted by China's permanent mission in Vienna said that it wanted the secretary general of the United Nations to circulate the information.
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State parties must bear international responsibility for national activities carried out by both government and non-governmental bodies in space.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told the Guardian that it was unusual for a country to lodge a complaint through an informational bulletin.
More than 1,600 satellites have been launched into space in the Starlink network, and the US Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead for up to 12,000 satellites to be launched.
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Is the night sky affected by Musk's megaconstellations?
There is a telescope and a satellite in the sky.
The number and speed of satellites has led to an increase in the number of space accidents. He said that Starlink was a big part of that.
He said that China was a major contributor to space junk. The US space station had to dodge pieces from the Chinese military anti-satellite test in 2007. The Chinese had a bad record here. The Chinese anti-satellite test was the biggest debris event.
The astrophysicist said that the world has entered a new era in space.
There are more active satellites. The space environment is being stressed for the first time in this space age because things are getting a lot more crowded.
The company did not reply to the request.
China's space programme had five successful manned missions in the year 2021.
