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		</div><p>China is calling on the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX nearly struck the station.</p>
<p>A foreign ministry spokesman accused Washington on Tuesday of ignoring its treaty obligations to protect the safety of the Tiangong station’s three-member crew following the July 1 and October 21 incidents.</p>
<p>The Tiangong performed “evasive manoeuvres” to “prevent a potential collision” with Starlink satellites launched by Space Exploration Technologies, the government said in a December 6 complaint to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.</p>
<p>The United States should “take immediate measures to prevent such incidents from happening again,” said the spokesman, Zhao Lijian.</p>
<p>Zhao accused Washington of failing to carry out its obligations to “protect the safety of astronauts” under a 1967 treaty on the peaceful use of space.</p>
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<p>The American Embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>The main module of the Tiangong was launched in April. Its first crew returned to Earth in September following a 90-day mission.</p>
<p>The second crew of two men and one woman arrived on October 16 for a six-month mission.</p>
<p>SpaceX plans to launch some 2,000 Starlink satellites as part of a global internet system to bring internet access to underserved areas.</p>
<p>In its 34th and latest launch, SpaceX sent 52 satellites into orbit aboard a rocket on December 18.</p>
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