Having mega corporations design space networks for you sounds like a great idea until they decide to lock you out and hold your government hostage. Or sell intel… Or sell access to other actors….
Just admit it—the corporations run the world at this point.
Nah, part of this is specifically that the US government owns it. This isn’t SpaceX just providing access. Think of the US government buying an F-35 or something.
I imagine that might be because they want to do things with it that’d be riskier than what SpaceX does with SpaceX’s constellation – i.e. adversaries might aim to dick it up.
Having mega corporations design space networks for you sounds like a great idea until they decide to lock you out and hold your government hostage. Or sell intel… Or sell access to other actors….
Just admit it—the corporations run the world at this point.
Nah, part of this is specifically that the US government owns it. This isn’t SpaceX just providing access. Think of the US government buying an F-35 or something.
I imagine that might be because they want to do things with it that’d be riskier than what SpaceX does with SpaceX’s constellation – i.e. adversaries might aim to dick it up.