Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit for an ambitious satellite internet venture . The effort was backed by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, leveraging a Biden-era law meant to address America's digital divide. But before the satellites even reached the launch site , Jeff Bezos' rocket exploded into a massive fireball, its wreckage left smoldering on the ground. It was an unintentionally pe … Read the full story at The Verge.