> by Jeff Foust [...] (jeff@thespacereview.com) is the editor and publisher of The Space Review, and a senior staff writer with SpaceNews. He also operates the Spacetoday.net web site.
So not bad. Just in case anyone else hesitated to look, after the bad taste of today's NYTimes front-page SpaceX hit piece trash. I wish we could leave behind the journalism concept, that ill intent and cluelessness can be fixed by low-level wordsmithing. You get "if you know the topic well, you can see there is a way to closely read and interpret this bit so it's not quite incorrect... even if most everyone reading the whole will be misled". Ah well.
Under Avoiding apocalypse, I might have mentioned LEO vs MEO drag lifetimes (years vs millennia). Under Ukrane, IIUC, that all starlink service is geofenced on borders, and finding your export unexpectedly a weapon system can be problematic.
So not bad. Just in case anyone else hesitated to look, after the bad taste of today's NYTimes front-page SpaceX hit piece trash. I wish we could leave behind the journalism concept, that ill intent and cluelessness can be fixed by low-level wordsmithing. You get "if you know the topic well, you can see there is a way to closely read and interpret this bit so it's not quite incorrect... even if most everyone reading the whole will be misled". Ah well.
Under Avoiding apocalypse, I might have mentioned LEO vs MEO drag lifetimes (years vs millennia). Under Ukrane, IIUC, that all starlink service is geofenced on borders, and finding your export unexpectedly a weapon system can be problematic.
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