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A researcher from the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications advocated for Chinese military capability to take out Starlink satellites on the grounds of national security in a peer-reviewed domestic journal. According to the South China Morning Post , lead author Ren Yuanzhen and colleagues advocated in Modern Defence Technology not only for China to develop anti-satellite capabilities, but also to have a surveillance system that could monitor and track all satellites in Starlink's constellation. "A combination of soft and hard kill methods should be adopted to make some Starlink satellites lose their functions and destroy the constellation's operating system,"...
