“We Chose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they were easy, but because they were hard,” President Kennedy famously said while enthusing the public about the idea of space as a beckoning frontier.
What soon became clear about the lunar missions was that while it was indeed technically possible to send people to the moon and return them again, anything to do with space required huge amounts of resources, both the cash and the human variety. The project took the biggest brains in the world and ,are them work together to achieve the goal.
Today, the problem with launching satellites into space remains similar. In this issue, we note how the established players in the space industry have emerged or consolidated in order to get the scale needed to bring about the spacecraft required to deliver an acceptable online experience. Even that might not be enough, as fat-walleyed upstarts such as SpaceX’s Starling and Amazons rival Huiper network threaten the status quo with new technology and vast constellations.
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