17 Apr 2025
Musk’s shadow grows over space industry
CEOs feels a mix of worry and excitement that the world’s biggest space entrepreneur has a hotline to the president.
Musk’s influence, even before he became President Donald Trump’s trusted advisor, was already vast. SpaceX, the company he founded, accounted for 95 percent of all rocket launches from the United States last year, while its constellation of 7,000 Starlink satellites accounts for the vast majority of active satellites in space.