Starlink claims Chinese launch nearly hit broadband sat

""A few days ago, 9 satellites were deployed from a launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwestern China," Michael Nicolls, a vice president of Starlink engineering at SpaceX wrote on Saturday. "As far as we know, no coordination or deconfliction with existing satellites operating in space was performed, resulting in a 200 meter close approach between one of the deployed satellites and STARLINK-6079 (56120) at 560 km altitude," he added."

"Australia's Border Force last week revealed the arrest and charging of a man accused of importing heroin and cocaine in air cargo packages. "The illicit drugs were concealed in consignments labelled as mashed potato packets, ink cartridges and coffee machine parts," Border Force wrote. The agency arrested the suspect on December 9th and seized a mobile phone that, after forensic investigation, was found to run an encrypted messaging application in which the man discussed delivery of consignments to locations around Sydney."

"India last week attracted over $50 billion in AI investment from Microsoft and Amazon. On December 9th, Microsoft announced a plan to spend $17.5 billion in India over four years "to advance the country's cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, skilling and ongoing operations." Plenty of that cash will go towards completing Azure's India South Central cloud region, which Microsoft expects to come online in mid-2026, pl"

A Chinese launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center deployed nine satellites that came within 200 meters of a Starlink satellite at 560 km altitude, with SpaceX stating no coordination or deconfliction was performed and linking the event to a CAS Space commercial launch. SpaceX warned that most operating risk in orbit comes from lack of coordination between operators. Australia's Border Force arrested a suspect on December 9 for allegedly importing heroin and cocaine concealed in consignments labelled as mashed potato packets, ink cartridges and coffee machine parts and seized an encrypted-messaging phone. Microsoft and Amazon committed over $50 billion in AI and cloud investments in India, including a $17.5 billion, four-year Microsoft plan to expand Azure and AI infrastructure.

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