This article is not accurate. SpaceX did not meet the requirements they needed to satisfy to qualify for money from the federal government that may have been used to purchase a hypothetical quantity of Starlink user terminals.
Regardless of what you think of Musk’s politics, it’s clear that the federal government has a strong bias against him. Tesla wasn’t even recognized as one of the producers of American EVs by the current administration!
Entrenched government favoritism kills innovation and rewards management by accountancy as we saw with Boeing and Starliner.
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