Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns
Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns
He will get all the contracts. Probably defund NASA. And destroy anyone with a pending lawsuit (USAID).
Great President.
Not to mention all those undersea cables being cut. Well gee, I wonder who stands to profit from that with their network of telecom satellites polluting our skies.
He wouldn't defund NASA; he makes money from their contracts.
He would kill NASA's research, development, and engineering budget and turn the agency into a skeleton crew. Then he would use their lack of progress (that he caused) to justify raising budgets to contract work out to the private sector (and specifically SpaceX).
He doesn't, almost all of SpaceX's profit is Starlink. On NASA contracts they bid low and lose money to block competition. Elon bid 2.9 billion for a lunar lander so Jeff Bezos's company wouldn't get it, and it's going to cost Elon 4x that much at minimum if he actually has to finish it, which is why he's trying to kill the moon program.
Early on NASA contracts were funding SpaceX, now he has to pull up that ladder to protect his monopoly, and it's cheaper to just kill NASA entirely.
He can still get government money but once all the technical people inside the government are gone it would work like Boring Company. Draw some CGI of a space monorail and sell it to congress with no process or oversight and grift off hype and fomo.
OF COURSE they did.
Ha. Big surprise. Prepare for mushes companies to get all the contracts
Lucky him.