The Quiet Enactment of Digital Borders A recent FCC public notice, seemingly a bureaucratic footnote, announced that SpaceX’s Starlink routers are exempt from a ban on foreign-made network equipment. The Trump administration’s decision, Read More
SpaceX’s Intertwined Futures Take Flight Twenty Starlink V3 satellites are packed into the belly of Starship, awaiting deployment on its 13th test flight later this week. For most, the news frames this as yet Read More
A Crowded Commons, a Fragmented Future Another commercial rocket stage just fragmented in low-Earth orbit, adding thousands of untrackable shards to an already perilously cluttered cosmic junkyard. This particular incident, involving the upper stage of Read More
Starlink’s Price Hike and Rental Fees: The Telco Transformation of a Disruptor A $10 monthly hardware rental fee might seem insignificant at first glance, but for Starlink, it represents a fundamental re-evaluation of its long-term Read More
Beyond the Price Tag: A New Era of Dependency The Pentagon’s quiet agreement to pay SpaceX $25,000 for each Starshield connection on its ‘kamikaze’ drones, a five-fold increase from the previous $5,000, is more than just Read More
The Illusion of Regulatory Efficiency The Federal Communications Commission’s recent blessing of EchoStar’s massive $40 billion spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX, presented as a triumph for spectrum utilization, is in fact Read More