This is not to say that Starlink has magically avoided all the friction caused by Musk’s increasingly MAGA politics. There have been scattered protests at SpaceX facilities in Texas, California and Washington state. But analysts don’t expect them to hurt the company.

Still, Starlink faces some hurdles. It will compete with other companies like Eutelsat and China’s SpaceSail, and there are legal challenges, such as how India assigns spectrum. Unlike some countries that auction off spectrum,

Elon Musk is being called the new Oprah Winfrey by absolutely no one thanks to his recent, purely magnanimous gesture of donating a Tesla to every member of Congress. This move is being hailed