Elon Musk's SpaceX is in a plum position to dominate space transport and satellite communications

More than half of satellites circling the Earth are currently owned by Starlink , launched into our atmosphere using SpaceX Falcon rockets.

Critics, including those inside the Department of Defense , have sounded the alarm on the increasing dominance of a single company.

President Trump ’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year would shower further billions on SpaceX for a missile defense system and manned flights to Mars and the moon.

The U.S. Space Force was maligned at the time of its creation as one more flashy excess of Donald Trump’s imagination.

But the Space Force is a very real, very active part of the armed forces, which monitors and preempts interspatial and space-to-ground attacks by American adversaries.

By contrast, SpaceX and Starlink are largely invisible, save for the flickering of satellites.

The dangers posed by Elon Musk’s control of outer space are grave.

Space-to-space (using a satellite to strike another) and space-to Earth (purposefully deorbiting a satellite) attacks are all on the menu for state actors and terrorist organizations eager to see American destabilization.

The barriers to downing a satellite from orbit, or worse, turning it into a weapon to crash into other satellites, are exceedingly low.