Chinese Criticize Secret SpaceX-NRO Program to Launch a Swarm of Hundreds of Spy Satellites
It surfaced this weekend that SpaceX is working in a classified project with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to build a secret system of swarming spy satellites.
The $1.8 billion with SpaceX’s Starshield unit contract was signed back in 2021, but news of it only leaked to the mainstream media two days ago.
The reaction from Beijing was swift. Chinese military and state-run media accused the United States of ‘threatening global security’ by hiring Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build ‘hundreds of spy satellites’ for a U.S. intelligence agency.
Reuters reported:
“A social media account run by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said the SpaceX program exposed the United States’ ‘shamelessness and double standards’ as Washington accuses Chinese tech companies of threatening U.S.
