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Elon Musk is seizing power in space with satellites
Governments ruled the skies in the days of Sputnik and the Apollo missions, but the closest thing to a space dictator these days is the SpaceX founder.
John GapperContributorIf you have spotted mysterious objects in the sky recently, you are not alone. Reports of unidentified flying objects in the US increased by 1000 last year, although many of those UFOs turned out to have been aircraft, drones and satellites. There are a lot of the latter floating around.
Elon Musk added even more last week, with the launch of a further 60 Starlink communications satellites aboard one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. He now has 1400 satellites aloft to provide broadband internet access in places where it is scarce, and he shows no signs of slowing down.
Financial Times
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