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Will the future world order be determined by who controls low Earth orbit?

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Will the future world order be determined by who controls low Earth orbit?
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When US special forces raided Caracas and abducted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife in early January, the Venezuelan capital was hit by widespread power outages and communication blackouts.
Yet, within hours of the attacks, connectivity began to return – not from paralysed ground infrastructure, but from space.
Elon Musk’s Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, activated communications services across Venezuela via its vast constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites on terminals residents

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