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.
一场太空大战正在酝酿之中。一方是亿万富翁战队,他们正在近地轨道(LEO)上建造巨大的卫星宽带星座,如埃隆•马斯克(Elon Musk)的SpaceX公司的“星链”(Starlink),以及杰夫•贝索斯(Jeff Bezos)的Project Kuiper。