The billionaire overseeing a wide-ranging government efficiency effort is offering his own SpaceX technology as the future of flight-safety inside the Federal Aviation Administration

The billionaire overseeing a wide-ranging government efficiency effort is offering his own SpaceX technology as the future of flight-safety inside the Federal Aviation Administration

  • @AA5BEnglish
    -1•17 hours ago

    need to put up such a contract to tendering

    Done

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/03/05/elon-musk-spacex-faa-verizon/

    Verizon already has a $2.4 billion, 15-year contract to replace all that copper wire with lightning-fast fiber-optic cables.

    who needs Air Traffic Control communications working during bad weather anyway?

    1. This is to replace the ancient network connecting existing centers and towers. Some of it is to facilitate handoffs from local control to enroute and all along the way, and make flight plans available wherever they may be
    2. I hope you’re joking. In normal circumstances even in controlled airspace they use a lot of “see and avoid”. Review that accident with the helicopter in DC to see what can happen when this fails. However in bad weather flights can be completely dependent on atc to avoid other traffic.
    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      6•17 hours ago

      If you would read your own article, Verizon has won the contract, not Musk and SpaceX. He’s trying to change this with his DOGE Clownshow

      Yes this was a joke about how SpaceX Equipment doesn’t work in bad weather and it’s completely stupid to use this instead of fiber communications like in the Verizon Contract