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272. Locked into Starlink’s Low Earth Iron Cage

This Machine Kills

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The Pentagon's Complaining About China's Starlink Satellites

China has been complaining that there are so many Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit that it's filling up the space and preventing other satellites from being launched, i.e. Chinese satellites. If anything, this is actually something I think the Pentagon likes because they must pump so much money into pumping so many satellites into the sky. And that means China's having a harder time putting their satellites in the sky. So if anything, quite the opposite, the Pentagon's probably happy to count the wind.

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