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Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites (gizmodo.com)
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Europe Reluctantly Chooses SpaceX to Launch Its GPS Satellites::Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to undertake its first launch of European satellites equipped with classified technology, specifically for the Galileo system.

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[โ€“] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As I understand it, It's also the company he has the least control of.

[โ€“] Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago

I personally think that it is incredibly irresponsible to give musk any control over the deployment of critical infrastructure after his stunts in Ukraine. What guarantees do we have that he is not backdooring these satellites while they are in his posession so that he can shutdown Galileo on a whim in the same way he did with starlink?