What is the essence of the Star Chain Project? It spatializes the ground base station, sets up a network in space, seamlessly connects all satellites to form a dense data link network, and relies on huge satellites for real-time communication, which is nearly 40 times faster than the ground base station.
Musk has said that he will send 42,000 small satellites into low-earth orbit by 2027. Building a global star chain network around the earth. What is the concept of 42,000? Simply put, it is 10 times the number of all satellites launched by the earth at present! What changes will this bring to mankind? Is it a major technological innovation or a threat to mankind?
We can imagine that satellites are like human eyes in space. There are 42,000 satellites, which is equivalent to wrapping the earth in three layers. It's basically 360 degrees without dead ends, constantly monitoring everyone's activities on the earth. 42,000 eyes plus a super artificial intelligence brain is actually the prototype of super artificial intelligence life in science fiction.
Don't think this is alarmist. As early as 2008, Musk said in a speech: "In the future, if the United States wants to continue to maintain its leading position in the military, it must carry out thorough technological innovation." So what is radical technological innovation? Musk explained: "In the future military technology, artificial intelligence is more lethal than the power of nuclear bombs."
The United States is a hegemonic country. Musk's satellite can provide services for the US military through simple transformation, which is a great threat to other countries. Recall that some time ago, Musk announced that the Star Chain project will provide Ukraine with the highest level of satellite network communication services. In less than a month, nearly 10 senior Russian generals died. This star chain plan is said to serve civilians, but in fact it provides military services to other countries. Technically speaking, AI artificial intelligence system can assign tasks by itself according to the information from satellites and accurately execute fixed-point sniper.
Speaking of which, are you as cold as me? This is not an imaginary worry. These small satellites also pose great security risks to outer space. As early as 202165438+February, Musk's Space X satellite approached China's space station twice. In order to protect the safety of astronauts on the space station, China adjusted its orbit twice to avoid the collision of two satellites, which brought serious problems to the safety of our space station and the life safety of astronauts.
According to the survey, on the surface, the Space X Star Chain Project is a private enterprise founded by Musk, but his actual company personnel are all from NASA. What about funds and orders? Basically, they are giants from the American military-industrial complex. So people's entrepreneurial geniuses are all commercial packaging on the surface. Whose intention is behind it? I think everyone should understand.
What surprises me even more is that these satellites of Musk are extremely cheap, even lower than the launch cost of rockets, and their cost is only 2% or even lower than that of ordinary satellites. Falcon rockets can carry 60 satellites into the sky at a time. According to the current speed of Musk launching once a week, I am afraid that all satellites will be put into short-range orbit in 2027. It is said that the near-orbit orbit can accommodate up to about 50,000 satellites, and then the earth's near-orbit resources will basically be occupied by Musk. Once these cheap satellites break down, they will become space junk, making it difficult for satellites active in this field to survive.
In a word, space and technology must be the highest frontier of human competition, and whoever can occupy the commanding heights will occupy the initiative of competition.
Recently, China Aerospace Group also officially announced a major event, officially announcing that it will launch tens of thousands of satellites to form a near-Earth asteroid defense system. This project is called "Galaxy Project". Its goal is to deploy small satellites with low orbit and low cost on a large scale.
The orbit of the space satellite is the same resource for human beings, which is a non-renewable resource, not a private back garden of a certain country. The next time a small satellite approaches the space station in China, waiting for its fate may be shot down on the spot.