Recently, a U.S. space observation group discovered that China’s new satellite “Practice-21” suddenly deviated from its own orbit and approached a retired Beidou positioning satellite in synchronous orbit, which was dragged to an abandoned orbit and discarded.
Exoanalytic Solutions, a U.S. civil space observation group, pointed out that “Practice-21” started to leave its original orbit on January 22, approached a Beidou positioning satellite, and then captured it with a robotic arm and dragged the satellite out of the synchronous orbit, and dragged it to a special place. Abandoned orbits of abandoned satellites and space junk.
The news attracted the attention of the US military and the “Center for Strategic and International Studies” (CSIS), a think tank, and said that “Practice-21” has OSAM satellite technology, which can move between different orbits, set up capture nets and robotic arms. In addition, other satellites can also be repaired, assemble parts, or clean up space junk, etc.
The United States is worried that “Practice-21” can throw retired satellites into abandoned orbits, and it can also throw away US GPS and missile early warning satellites, which may have a fatal impact on the combat capabilities of the US military.
The Shishi-21 satellite was launched in Xichang, Sichuan Province, China on October 24 last year. Its main mission is to clean up space debris.
materialsource:thedrive
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