#ElonMusk’s Most Alarming #Power Grab
Can anyone stop his #space-based #internet?
by Ross Andersen
When #Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype #satellites into a rocket’s nose cone 6yrs ago, there were <2k functional satellites in Earth’s #orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: All through the pandemic, & the years since, Musk’s company, #SpaceX, kept launching them. >7k of his satellites now surround #Earth like a cloud of gnats.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/starlink-elon-musk-space-internet/682705/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxS9Y60abe3-ea5P_I6HWcuE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share