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Disaster Looms As President Trump Plans To Defund #Satellite Crash Avoidance Service
"Helping the U.S. space industry operate safely in an increasingly congested #space domain ensures space-based services like broadband internet and weather forecasting are available to the American people. Likewise, a safe space operating environment is vital for continuity of national security space missions such as early warning of missile attacks on deployed U.S. military forces."
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Jalopnik · Disaster Looms As President Trump Plans To Defund Satellite Crash Avoidance ServiceBy Ryan Erik King
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#ElonMusk who spent >$250 million to help elect #Trump, owns a controlling interest in #SpaceX & its #satellite subsidiary #Starlink. Both are regulated by the #NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce [#OSC], which lost about ⅓ of its staff in Feb #MassLayoffs facilitated by the #DOGE, which #Musk created.

SpaceX also stands to gain through a new generation of #private & federally funded #weather satellites that would be carried into orbit on its rockets.