You’re a mega-billionaire. You already own one of the world’s most influential social media platforms, and dominate more than half of the US electric car market. You are regularly named as one of the world’s most influential people. You’ve had your hairline sorted, you’ve already had 11 children, so what do you do next?
For Elon Musk, the answer is: attempt to dominate space.
So far the effort is going well. SpaceX, the company Musk founded in 2002, has launched more than 4,500 Starlink satellites in the past five years, accounting for more than half of all active satellites orbiting Earth.
Together those satellites can deliver internet access to almost anywhere in the globe, giving Musk access over global communications and the ability to intervene in
