Elon Musk criticised after China space complaint to UN

 Elon Musk is facing a social media backlash after China complained that its space station was forced to avoid collisions with satellites launched by his Starlink Internet Services project.

The country's space station had two "close encounters" with Starlink satellites this year, Beijing claimed.

Starlink is a satellite internet network operated by Mr Musk's SpaceX.

Mr Musk is well known in China even as his electric carmaker Tesla comes under growing scrutiny from regulators.

The incidents occurred on 1 July and 21 October, according to a document submitted by China this month to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.

"For safety reasons, the China Space Station implemented preventive collision avoidance control," Beijing said in the document published on the agency's website.

SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.

After the complaint was made public, Mr Musk, Starlink and the US were heavily criticised on China's Twitter-like Weibo microblogging platform.

One user described Starlink's satellites as "just a pile of space junk".

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