{"id":120408,"date":"2024-10-31T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T03:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120408"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T03:23:44","slug":"pentagon-uneasy-about-elon-musks-new-spy-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120408","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk\u2019s New Spy Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"block pb-1 text-3xl leading-none uppercase border-b lg:hidden xs:text-4xl font-k lg:text-5 border-red\">And they have good reason to worry.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Tinker Tailor<\/h2>\n<p>SpaceX just launched some reportedly &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-nrol-167-launch-spy-satellites\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">next-gen<\/a>&#8221; spy satellites on behalf of the US government \u2014 and it sounds like certain officials at the Pentagon are anxious about it.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us\/politics\/spacex-spy-satellites-elon-musk.html\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">interviews with the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, Pentagon officials and consultants who work with the space industry say that there are those within the Department of Defense concerned about the secretive spy crafts, especially in the wake of revelations that Elon Musk has been <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-taking-orders-putin-xi\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">having cozy phone chats with Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> revealed<\/a> that these Musk-Putin t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates have been going on &#8220;regularly&#8221; since all the way back in 2022. During one such call, Putin asked the multi-hyphenate CEO not to provide Starlink satellite internet to Taiwan as a &#8220;favor&#8221; to Chinese President Xi Jinping. Given that Taiwan does indeed lack Starlink coverage, it would appear that Musk acquiesced.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Administrator <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/head-nasa-elon-musk-putin\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">Bill Nelson has publicly voiced concern<\/a> about the alleged exchanges,\u00a0and he&#8217;s not the only one: officials at the DoD have apparently been worried privately that, as critics have long pointed out, the US government may have erred by putting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/28\/elon-musk-security-clearance-putin\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">all its eggs<\/a> in Musk&#8217;s incredibly conspiratorial and far-right basket.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Monopoly Money<\/h2>\n<p>Three Pentagon officials interviewed by the <em>NYT<\/em> anonymously so they could speak freely said that if nothing else, there&#8217;s growing apprehension about the appearance of a SpaceX monopoly if both NASA and the DoD are using it near-exclusively for space contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dsb.cto.mil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSB_Commercial-Space-Final-Report_ForPublicRelease.pdf\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">report issued earlier this year<\/a>, the Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Science Board warned that the &#8220;emergence of vendor lock, or dependence upon a sole vendor, has the potential to negate the strengths of the market by stifling innovation and inflating prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This can culminate in a de facto monopoly,&#8221; the report continued, &#8220;cementing a stagnant and wasteful anticompetitive paradigm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mandy Vaughn, a member of that DOD board and the CEO of the space consultancy GXO, took the criticism a step further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There isn\u2019t a launch or a spacecraft competition that SpaceX can\u2019t walk into and completely warp and run the table,&#8221; Vaughn explained to the <em>NYT<\/em>. &#8220;That\u2019s a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, it&#8217;s a massive issue that the person who controls so much of the US government&#8217;s space contracts has been chatting on the regular with one of our country&#8217;s biggest rivals \u2014 and now, he&#8217;s in charge of <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2024\/10\/why-is-elon-musk-talking-to-vladimir-putin-and-what-does-it-mean-for-spacex\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\">sending out new spy satellites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More on Musk problems:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/philadelphia-da-sues-elon-musk\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\"><em>Philadelphia DA Sues Elon Musk for Paying Voters<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/pentagon-elon-musk-spy-satellites\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they have good reason to worry. Tinker Tailor SpaceX just launched some reportedly &#8220;next-gen&#8221; spy satellites on behalf of the US government \u2014 and it sounds like certain officials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120408\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}