Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk’s New Spy Satellites
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Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched a bunch of spy satellites for the Pentagon — and some in the DOD are getting worried.

After giving in to Putin/Xi’s demands to not provide starlink internet service over Taiwan, DOD officials are growing nervous about trusting Elon’s Space company with our national secrets

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    the money is still being handled through NASA for oversight.

    Oversight of the money is far from the problem here. This is not an issue of cheating the government or mismanagement of money, this is a national security issue.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 days ago

      this is a national security issue.

      In some ways, SpaceX delivered too well.

      NASA has been trying to find multiple launch providers but where are they? This is probably not the risk reduction they were going for but it is exactly risk that can be reduced by having multiple providers. However SpaceX succeeded well enough to dominate the field, worldwide

      Where are Bozos and those other guys? Where even is ULA? Where’s that payback on NASA funding?