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SpaceX's Private Control Of Satellite Internet Concerns Military Leaders

www.space.com SpaceX's private control of satellite internet concerns military leaders: report

"We worry that if we order devices from Starlink, we'll fall into some sort of trap."

SpaceX's Private Control Of Satellite Internet Concerns Military Leaders::Military leaders around the world have expressed concerns over the dominance of SpaceX founder Elon Musk when it comes to satellite-based internet services.

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SpaceX's Private Control Of Satellite Internet Concerns Military Leaders

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SpaceX and Starlink got most of the funding strait from the DoD. The Spaceforce Branch of the US Military has 100% full controll over the whole constelation if they need to.
Using Musk as a Front to launch a shit ton of Satelites is just a good front so people arent enraged the US Military but so many new sats up.
They Squat on the best orbits so the chinese cant take those. They can be uses for Signal inteligence. They even can be uses as distributed SAR lens for observations. Possible even for the interception of balistic Missiles once there are enouth of them up there.
The military implication are enormus. It is the High ground you wana have. Making the world thing thay this wasnt an American Defense projekt was the best psyop ever pulled.
- The problem for me is that Musk is an unreliable partner to any government. He is for sale to the highest bidder that strokes his ego.
  But I guess that is a risk the feds will have to deal with in due time.
  Honestly I waiting for the moment when one of Musk’s stunts gets Space X banned from government contracts until the boot the Muppet.
  Edit: grammar
  
  The US gov can take control of the constellation through the Defense Production Act and they can even jail or remove musk if he doesn't comply. In the event of an actual war, assuming the constellation doesn't get shot down, it wouldn't be a problem.
  
  Yeah. Part of me has to wonder what -- if any -- backchanneled agreements there are between Glynn Shotwell and the DoD for if/when Musk does something truly compromising.
  
  Musk is an unreliable partner to any government.
  Doubt that or he wouldn't be where he is at
- Starlink helps Ukraine and that’s okay to me
  
  Helps them up to a point. He didn't allow Ukrainians to use it in Crimea for example, which shows allegiance to Russia more than anything else.

It should. Musk leans heavily fascist and loves putler.
- Honestly even of he was a great guy it's still a bad idea to have an incredibly important military asset in the hands of a private corporation.
  
  Absolutely.
  
  It's SpaceX's assets, they launched them. The Air Force has the ability to put up their own and they haven't.

Sure but I don't know if a bunch of militaries having that control is any better
- Musk controlling it is slightly better than governments controlling it, but governments controlling communication assets doesn't get the rage clicks musk does.

Especially concerning to the military leaders of authoritarian regimes!

Better late than never.

Yes they should be hacked and forced to reenter at point Nemo. space trash.
- You think we should just destroy millions of dollars worth of cutting edge internet architecture which aids rural communities have usable internet globally because you don’t like the guy who paid for it? Seriously?
  
  No because its a gigantic security risk to have that amount of space trash flying around. I don't give a single fuck about musk, blue origin builds something like that as well, its also absolutely shit.
  Also, who the fuck is "rural communities" and has the money to afford this service? Cause guess what, satellite internet is expensive as hell.
  Here is a video explaining the problem https://youtu.be/eeQnv_IWttw

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