Starting in the 1950s and up to 2019, there was a sum total of roughly 2,000 operating satellites in orbit. But in May of 2019, Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX launched the first ...

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"India, China, Brazil are all close behind. The United States military is developing its own [megaconstellations] right now," said Lowenthal. "The nation of Rwanda has filed plans for 330,000 ...