SpaceX Whines About Space Collisions After Gutting Regulators That Oversee That Sort Of Thing

Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president for Starlink and president of xAI, appeared recently at the International Astronautical Congress in Turkey to lament the rise of space collisions as Musk and Bezos flood the night sky with low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. According to Nicolls, there’s been a decided lack of coordination among space companies as they’ve rushed LEO satellites into orbit (sans any meaningful regulatory oversight), resulting in multiple recent near-collisions: “Once you can track this debris, and if you can track it well, these are like obstacles on a road. If you can measure them, you can predict where they’re going to be, and you can avoid them,” Nicolls said. “What you can’t avoid is other...

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