“Elon Musk has been pretty cavalier about his ability to turn on or turn off Starlink to influence policy decisions,” Garner, from the Benton Institute, told me, referring to a series of recent posts on X from Musk about cutting off Starlink access in Ukraine.

That dominance, counterintuitively, might become a problem for Elon Musk’s rocket company. President Donald Trump, Ukraine, and Russia could provide the spark for new competition. “In recent weeks, there appears to be a potentially tectonic shift occurring in the satcom landscape ignited by geopolitics,

Tesla shares have fallen in each of the seven weeks since Elon Musk went to Washington to cut government costs.