The billionaire overseeing a wide-ranging government efficiency effort is offering his own SpaceX technology as the future of flight-safety inside the Federal Aviation Administration
Ah yes, the company that routinely blows up rockets to test them, and that took several minutes to realize their first starship blew up wants to be in charge of airline safety.
I’d rather they pull a random 12 year old from school and give them the job of running the fucking place. At least the 12 year old doesn’t have a track record of fucking up 50% of the time.
In a developed nation you would need to put up such a contract to tendering.
Also who needs Air Traffic Control communications working during bad weather anyway?
need to put up such a contract to tendering
Done
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/03/05/elon-musk-spacex-faa-verizon/
Verizon already has a $2.4 billion, 15-year contract to replace all that copper wire with lightning-fast fiber-optic cables.
who needs Air Traffic Control communications working during bad weather anyway?
- This is to replace the ancient network connecting existing centers and towers. Some of it is to facilitate handoffs from local control to enroute and all along the way, and make flight plans available wherever they may be
- I hope you’re joking. In normal circumstances even in controlled airspace they use a lot of “see and avoid”. Review that accident with the helicopter in DC to see what can happen when this fails. However in bad weather flights can be completely dependent on atc to avoid other traffic.
If you would read your own article, Verizon has won the contract, not Musk and SpaceX. He’s trying to change this with his DOGE Clownshow
Yes this was a joke about how SpaceX Equipment doesn’t work in bad weather and it’s completely stupid to use this instead of fiber communications like in the Verizon Contract
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