Space is about to get more congestion for Elon Musk.
Network Starlink Communications in the billionaire is increasingly facing high challenges on its high -speed satellite dominance, including a state -backed Chinese competitor and another service funded by the founder of Amazon.com Jeff Bezos.
In November, Scipaceips signed an agreement to enter Brazil and announced that they were holding talks with more than 30 countries.
After two months, work began in Kazakhstan, according to the Kazakh embassy in Beijing.
Separately, Brasília holds talks with the Bezos Project Kuper Internet Service and Telesat in Canada, according to a Brazilian official involved in the negotiations, which occurs provided that his identity is not disclosed to discuss the ongoing talks freely. The news of these discussions is reported for the first time.
Since 2020, Starlink has launched more satellites in low-Earth orbit-at a height of less than 1242 miles-from all its competitors combined. Satellite that operates at these low -data rises is very efficiently efficient, providing high -speed internet to remote communities, marine ships and armies in the war.
Pribacy in Space is seen as a threat by Beijing, which invests heavily in competitors and financing military research in tools that follow the satellite towers, according to the files of Chinese companies and academic papers whose details have not been reported.
China launched a record 263 Liu satellite last year, according to data from the astronomical physicist Jonathan McDawell, its analysis by Analysys Mason.
The Brazilian government welcomed the emergence of the competition to Starlink, which wants a high -speed internet for societies in remote areas, but previously faced musk for trade and politics.
Spaceslay refused to comment when Reuters questions about their expansion plans. One of the newspapers controlled by the communications organizer in China last year praised that it is “able to overcome national borders, penetrate sovereignty and cover the entire world … a strategic ability that our country must master.”
Koyber, Telesat and the Ministry of Communications at Starlink and Brazil did not respond to the suspension requests.
Few Musk International competitors have the same ambition controlled by Scepace, which is controlled by the Shanghai municipal government.
It has announced plans to deploy 648 of the Liu satellite this year and up to 15,000 by 2030; Starlink currently has about 7,000 satellites, according to McDoel, and has set itself a target to run 42000 by the end of the contract.
The launches of Spaceslay will ultimately include Qianfan, or “A Thousand Swimming”, a constellation that represents the first international batch in China in the broader satellite. There are three other Chinese towers under development, as Beijing plans to launch 43,000 Liu satellites in the coming decades and invest in missiles that can carry many satellites.
“The end of the game is the occupation of the largest possible number of tropical openings,” said Chicania Jerry, a space technology expert at the Observer Research Foundation in India.
China's rush to occupy more low -Earth orbit fears among Western policy makers, worried that it could extend from the scope of the Internet control system in Beijing.
Researchers at the Center for Thought at the US State Policy Council said in a paper in February that Washington should increase cooperation with the southern global countries if it wants to “seriously compete for China's increasing in digital domination.”
Researchers also described Chiafan as a decisive part of the space component of the Belt and Roads Initiative in China.
The global infrastructure development plan is $ 1 trillion dollars in Chinese leader Xi Jinping, but it was accused by critics that they are a tool in the first place to expand Beijing's geopolitical influence.
The regulator of the Ministry of Commerce in China and Communications Communications did not respond to the suspension requests. In response to Reuters questions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that although it was not aware of the details surrounding the areas and our Chinese satellites, which are expanding abroad, Beijing is following space cooperation with other countries in favor of its people.
Spaceslay said it aims to provide reliable internet for more users, especially those in remote areas and during healing from emergency and natural disasters.
Wild West
Starlink's rapid expansion and its use in the war in Ukraine acquired the attention of military researchers such as those at the Chinese National Defense University, which led to great funding for competing satellite networks.
Hongzing technology, founded in 2017, collected the development of a constellation of 10,000 arcs, this month 340 million yuan from most of the investors who followed the state.
Last year, Spacesels received $ 930 million in a financing round led by a state -owned investment fund that focuses on upgrading manufacturing capabilities in China.
The Chinese researchers, including many of the People's Liberation Army, have turned their attention to this field. China published a record 2449 patents related to satellite technology in Liu in 2023, up from 162 in 2019, according to the ANAQUA RAVELIP database.
Many focus on cost -cost satellite networks and low -seat communication systems, according to Reuters review, confirming the batch of China to fill the technology gap.
“The space world is moving quickly and busy with the experiment,” said Antoine Greenner, head of the global space at Analysys Mason Consultance.
“The pioneers enjoy this relative freedom and form it in their favor to demand the main situations before the rules become more striking – like the wild West.”
Some Chinese research seems to be targeted in Starlink, with the Patent Patents Associated with one PLA, which describes the American regime as it is very important to reconnaissance and military communications with “threats to the network, data and military security”.
Beijing is also developing tools to track and monitor the Starlink constellation. Researchers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, in a study conducted in January in a Chinese geometric magazine, said that they designed a system and algorithm to track huge maturity such as Starlink's, which was inspired by how to hunt the humpback whales by writing down and creating cycle bubbles.
The researchers wrote: “Through the increasing direction in space militarization, the development of tools to monitor and track these huge work is very important.”
