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The Gafam, an extraterrestrial power

2020-10-25T23:05:46.217Z


CHRONICLE - In Jacques-Olivier Martin's notepad, this week, the conquest of space, and the debt that flows freely.


We must face the facts, little by little space is flourishing!

The new conquest announced a handful of years ago is no longer the only sweet dream of astronomers or the promise of eccentric entrepreneurs.

The emerging economic powers, China and India in the lead, have built their launchers and thus gained their space sovereignty.

They do not hesitate to display it, like Xi Jinping, proud to announce a few months ago that his country was the first to have sent a mission to the far side of the moon.

But it is perhaps on the side of companies that the mobilization for this "new space", as the Americans say, is the strongest.

Nokia has been selected to install 4G on the Moon.

Also last week, Microsoft announced a partnership with SpaceX to connect the Starlink constellation to its data centers, the famous "Data Centers", to provide high-speed cloud services through space to customers far from terrestrial networks.

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Source: lefigaro

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