Micah Maidenberg
Appearances
WSJ What’s News
U.S. Retail Giants Have Kept Prices Low. But How Long Can It Last?
Amazon is trying to build a low-Earth orbit satellite network. These are satellites that are relatively close to the globe. You need thousands of them to provide coverage. But the advantage, if you get thousands of them up, is that you can offer higher speeds and lower latencies.
WSJ What’s News
U.S. Retail Giants Have Kept Prices Low. But How Long Can It Last?
More broadly, the company is looking for another big franchise to support all of the other ventures and businesses like the e-commerce side, Amazon Web Services, etc., that it already has. The clear market leader right now is SpaceX's Starlink network. More than 7,000 satellites are already up.
WSJ What’s News
U.S. Retail Giants Have Kept Prices Low. But How Long Can It Last?
It has millions of users around the world, most of them in the U.S., and a big and growing business among corporate and company clients. Other governments and companies are building their own low Earth orbit networks, including Canada-based Telesat in Europe. Governments and satellite companies are working on a new government-oriented system that would include a low Earth orbit layer.
WSJ What’s News
U.S. Retail Giants Have Kept Prices Low. But How Long Can It Last?
And there's at least a couple of other Chinese LEO networks in the works as well.
WSJ What’s News
What It Would Take to Fix U.S. Air-Traffic Control
SpaceX industrialized the landscape, so to speak, built this enormous factory, added other production sites, and added testing facilities for really powerful rockets. And that's upset a lot of people. There are folks that are really... frustrated with beach closures. There are folks that claim SpaceX is not a good steward of the local environment. SpaceX pushes back on that idea very strongly.
WSJ What’s News
What It Would Take to Fix U.S. Air-Traffic Control
And then there are a lot of people in Cameron County who are working at SpaceX and who have businesses that are tied to Starbase. And those economic opportunities have generated a lot of support from a lot of people in the region, in the county, and among elected officials. Starbase more broadly is part of the Rio Grande Valley, which historically has been among the poorest in the country.