Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s firm aims eventually to loft nearly 12,000 spacecraft for its “Starlink” network. SpaceX is one of several commercial outfits with permission to fly an internet mega-constellation. Others include the UK-based start-up OneWeb, which began its roll-out in February with six operational spacecraft....
it will be some time before SpaceX can actually offer connections to the internet. For that it must launch many more than the 60 spacecraft on Thursday’s Falcon. Six further rocket flights will have to take place before minor broadband coverage is achieved. A dozen launches are required for moderate coverage, says Mr Musk. He hopes ultimately that revenue from the telecommunications network can fund some of his other ideas: “We think this is a key stepping stone on the way towards establishing a self-sustaining city on Mars and a base on the Moon.”
how will this change things?
Space.com has an article on how private space satellites have been there for quite awhile (Direct TV for example), and discusses how this will change things in the future.
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related: 5G:
and some of this is about Huawei in the USA: there is a big worry they can spy on you.
or as Richard Fernandez puts it:
If Globalization Meant China Could Turn off Your Fridge, Would You Still Like It?
China stealing intellectual property?
what else is new: It's been an open secret for at least 30 years (and ignored by Clinton who arranged a way for rocket technology be sent to China).
Well, since my Lenovo computer came with illegal embedded software to spy on me (removed after someone found out and insisted they send you a way to do this), no I don't trust China. (and of course, they hacked my US Gov't OPM file a couple years ago).
Strategy Page has an article about the US/China trade war, and includes a paragraph on how China is using a Social Credit Rating and other means to control their population.
In the northwest (Xinjiang province) it has been no secret that the extreme security measures have been mainly directed at Uighur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz Moslems. This includes a growing number of electronic tracking methods (mandatory cell phone apps, extensive use of high resolution security vidcams and effective facial recognition tech) that enable police to monitor most everyone in Xinjiang in real time and enormous detail. This system automatically detects and locates “disloyal” people and has them picked up for reeducation.
and guess who is their main target? Those pesky Uighurs, who object to the Han takeover of their ancestral land: Folks who happen to be Muslim:
Nearly a million of these Moslems have been sent to reeducation camps and that has become an international issue, but not with Moslem nations who are usually quick to complain about any real or imagined slight by Western nations.like the Rohingye refugees, no one cares because it isn't the fault of the US or Israel.
But then, how many western countries condemn the persecution of Christians in the Middle East or in China (hell, the Pope is even looking the other way).
Sigh.
For later reading.
and remember: a lot of folks in the US will be quietly bribed or given business deals to push their story. LINK LINK2 LI NK3
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