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In the latest Space Race it is China versus SpaceX

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    By Selam Lackidan, Nikolay Nikolov, Jon Hazell, Laura Salaberry and Malika Khurana

    China has made it a national priority to catch up with the nearly 8,000 Starlink-Internet-Contracting Satellites from SpaceX in a job with a low earth, which regards it as a military threat. Despite successes in other parts of his space program, China has only 124 internet -providing satellites in a job with a low earth. Selam Lugeridian, a research reporter for the New York Times, explains why China is left in this new space trace.

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