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Bloomberg News reports:
Two weeks ago, SpaceX engineer Ted Malaska showed up at the FAA’s headquarters in Washington to deliver what he described as a directive from his boss Elon Musk: The agency will immediately start work on a program to deploy thousands of the company’s Starlink satellite terminals. Malaska told those in attendance that the employees had up to 18 months to get the new program up and running, an unsettling timeline for aviation safety employees accustomed to a more deliberate pace.
Anyone who impeded progress, Malaska said, would be reported to Musk and risked losing their jobs, The FAA’s networks are instrumental to overseeing 29 million square miles of US airspace and ensuring the orderly and safe movement of 45,000 flights daily. They are aging and long overdue for an upgrade. In 2023, the agency awarded Verizon a contract worth $2.4 billion to do just that. Now the fate of Verizon’s contract is up in the air as the agency considers whether to cede it to SpaceX.
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NEW: How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA
FAA employees were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA-SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risked losing their jobs.
A ton of scoopy news in this new report
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