> And that would make sense totally aside from punitive response
So the government has spend the last nearly 50 years completely failing in building rockets or sats the way SpaceX did. SpaceX with little money did it in less then 20 years.
And now you think its smart to have have the government taking over again? Do you want the government to run the global Starlink network, dealing with costumer complains?
What part of NASA or any part of the government in the last 20 years convinced you that they could operate SpaceX?
DoD tried to make space good and literally created ULA and after 10 years they often paid 300+ million for a launch?
And just FYI, Starshield is Starlink for the government and the government already controls those themselves.
The US government could buy out Musk, keep the company public while owning a majority of the shares and do nothing with them unless the company does something incredibly stupid.
That's also how Europe does it and its even worse then the US. And China rockets aren't all that impressive.
Also, the US has little history of this and the history it does have is utterly terrible. Go look up the performance of US own weapons factories threw history, basically just a long list of failure that lead to real issues in wars.
The US does not need to own the company to be able to prevent them doing something they don't want.
So the government has spend the last nearly 50 years completely failing in building rockets or sats the way SpaceX did. SpaceX with little money did it in less then 20 years.
And now you think its smart to have have the government taking over again? Do you want the government to run the global Starlink network, dealing with costumer complains?
What part of NASA or any part of the government in the last 20 years convinced you that they could operate SpaceX?
DoD tried to make space good and literally created ULA and after 10 years they often paid 300+ million for a launch?
And just FYI, Starshield is Starlink for the government and the government already controls those themselves.