The answer(s) to the title question are probably fairly obvious. Elon Musk is constructing hundreds of spy satellites for the United States for the money and because his company, SpaceX, now has a vast amount of experience in building satellites. SpaceX Starshield was awarded a $1.8 billion contract to do this in 2021. They’ve already successfully built and launched literally thousands of satellites. They’ve put so many into orbit that astronomers are complaining that he’s messing up their long-exposure photographs. Perhaps the real question we should be asking is why we all know about it. Isn’t that the sort of thing that you’d like to keep secret from the Russians and the Chinese? (NY Post)
SpaceX is developing a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract between billionaire Elon Musk’s space company and a U.S. intelligence agency, according to a…
