The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
  • MrSpArkleEnglish
    2•7 hours ago

    SpaceX and Starlink basically have no competition, and if they did, said competitor would also need to be heavily subsidized.

    • @finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•5 hours ago

      These last few years they’ve had very little successes, but the point is it should stay competitive and not be automatically handed to these doofuses. Even the USSR maintained a competitive rocketry sector.