There is a battle brewing in space. In one corner you have the billionaires building giant satellite broadband constellations in low earth orbit (LEO) — Elon Musk with SpaceX’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos with Project Kuiper. In the other corner stand the traditional fixed satellite operators such as ViaSat and SES — but also a number of nations increasingly uncomfortable with the way in which the new space economy is evolving. In other words, with the dominance of US mega constellations in a strategic region of space.
一場太空大戰正在醞釀之中。一方是億萬富翁戰隊,他們正在低軌道(LEO)上建造巨大的衛星寬頻星座,如伊隆•馬斯克(Elon Musk)的SpaceX公司的「星鏈」(Starlink),以及傑夫•貝佐斯(Jeff Bezos)的Project Kuiper。