SpaceX Alleges A Chinese Satellite Risked Colliding With Starlink

A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket risked colliding with a Starlink satellite. 

On Friday, company VP for Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, tweeted about the incident and blamed a lack of coordination from the Chinese launch provider CAS Space. 

“When satellite operators do not share ephemeris for their satellites, dangerously close approaches can occur in space,” he wrote, referring to the publication of predicted orbital positions for such…