The Federal Aviation Administration has started to test the use of SpaceX Starlink satellite -internet -terminals in the National Airspace system, almost two years after Verizon had made a contract over 2 billion US dollars for a similar work.
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk alleged On its social media platform X that the Verizon system “does not work and that flight travelers are also seriously at risk”.
A Verizon spokesman did not immediately answer a request for comments.
The news, first reported of von von BloombergJust a few weeks after the new US Transport Minister Sean Duffy said that Musk and his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” would contribute to “updating” the air traffic control system.
In a statement on Monday, the FAA said that Alaska had had problems with reliable weather information for the aviation community for a long time.
“The 2024 FAA Reauthorization calls for the FAA to remedy telecommunications connections in order to meet these requirements,” says X. “That is why the FAA has taken into account the use of Starlink since the previous administration in order to reliability to increase at distant locations, including in Alaska. “
The agency also confirmed that she tested a terminal in your facility in Atlantic City and two terminals at critical locations in Alaska.
Musk has spent the last month to hack with the help of the interior life of the federal government From a squad of workersMany of them come from their ecosystem of companies, including SpaceX and Tesla. Doge’s workers have received access to several federal authorities who regulate Musk’s companies, and some who – as far as we know – still carry out ongoing studies of these companies.
President Donald Trump has claimed that Musk will polish all conflicts of interest himself, which means that no agency or person evaluates whether the richest man in the world personally benefits from this access and power.
