{"id":145015,"date":"2026-01-27T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145015"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:00:11","slug":"chinese-satellite-forces-4400-of-its-starlink-rivals-into-lower-altitude-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145015","title":{"rendered":"Chinese satellite forces 4,400 of its Starlink rivals into lower altitude: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA team of researchers in China has claimed that a recent near-miss between a Chinese satellite and one of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink devices was behind the US company\u2019s decision to move more than 4,000 of its satellites into lower orbit.<br \/>\nThe two satellites passed within about 200 metres (656 feet) of each other on December 10, shortly after a launch from northwestern China, according to a social media post last month by Michael Nicolls, SpaceX\u2019s vice-president of engineering.<br \/>\nThree weeks later, in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3341360\/chinese-satellite-forces-4400-its-starlink-rivals-lower-altitude-study?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA team of researchers in China has claimed that a recent near-miss between a Chinese satellite and one of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink devices was behind&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}