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