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From TechXplore.com:

NASA's X-59 breaks the sound barrier for the first time

by Kristen Hatfield, NASA
june 8, 2026

On June 5, 2026, NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft flew faster
than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for
demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities later this year.

NASA test pilot Jim "Clue" Less took off and landed at Edwards
Air Force Base in California, reaching a top speed of about Mach
1.1 (about 713 mph, or about 1,147 kph). The flight lasted 81
minutes, with the team focusing on flying qualities at both
subsonic and supersonic speeds.

The X-59 is the centerpiece of NASA's Quesst mission, which aims
to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight and help enable commercial
supersonic flight over land worldwide. These advancements will
help travelers reach their destinations faster, spending less
time in the air.

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-supersonic-nasa-barrier.html
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From Phys.org

June 9, 2026

SpaceX's hold over orbit matches East India Company's grip on
maritime trade

by Fred Lewsey
University of Cambridge

Elon Musk's SpaceX holds sway over the emerging space economy in
a way that has more in common with notorious colonial-era trading
companies than the competitive markets of today's textbooks,
according to a new study.

In 2025, SpaceX had a market share of around 75% of everything
humanity sent into space, according to calculations led by Dr.
Alessio Terzi from the University of Cambridge's Bennett School
of Public Policy.

This may surpass the East India Company's share of global tonnage
shipped between Europe and Asia when the British company ruled
over India in the 1820s, which research suggests was around 72%.

Terzi, an economist, worked with historian Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi
to compare space launch data with historical data on major
trading companies between 1500 and 1800.

As with "Age of Sail" corporations, SpaceX operates with almost
complete autonomy, controlling infrastructure and exploiting
legal gray areas to command power over a frontier that typically
belongs to nation-states, Terzi says. He argues that a single
private firm may not have held such a grip on a "strategic
transport technology" for four centuries.

SpaceX's share of payload mass reaching orbit exceeds the share
of seaborne trade around the Cape of Good Hope controlled by
either the Dutch East India Company at its peak in the 1710s
(72%) or the French East India Company in the 1750s (19%).

The last time a single entity had comparable control over a
global transport sector may have been the Portuguese Crown's
total monopoly over the Cape Route in the 1570s, prior to
establishing its own East India Company, according to
researchers.

"Space is becoming an economic frontier governed by one or two
corporations, just as the world's oceans once were," said Terzi,
who co-authored the new working paper.

"Weak international rules and geopolitical competition create
conditions for a frontier company to rapidly acquire power that
should be reserved for states, leaving governments reliant on a
private firm in areas of national security," Terzi said.

"The U.S. is caught in a trap. Reining in SpaceX would slow
America down in the race with China, so no U.S. administration
has a strong incentive to do it. The same logic applied to the
East India Company in its day.

"History tells us that power and exploitation become so
entrenched that states are eventually forced to intervene, by
which time the costs of doing so are vast. The East India Company
took two centuries to bring it under control. Space doesn't have
that long," he said.

The United States now relies heavily on private launchers for its
space access. Last year, 94% of all U.S. launches were done by
SpaceX. The rise of private spacefaring has driven a fall in
launch costs, says Terzi.

The average cost of launching a kilogram of cargo into low Earth
orbit has plummeted in recent years, falling from $15,000 per
kilo in the early 2000s to just $4,000 by 2025, according to
previous work by Terzi and colleagues.

While historically space launch vehicles were one and done, the
advent of reusable technology, spearheaded by SpaceX from 2016
onwards, changed the market: more launches meant operational
refinement and lower costs.

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SpaceX also "manufactured its own demand" by building Starlink:
thousands of satellites—and hundreds of rocket launches—to
provide broadband in remote areas. Competitors lack both reusable
systems and this self-perpetuating market.

"Each successful mission allows SpaceX to become faster and more
cost-effective, pushing competitors further to the periphery each
year," says Terzi.

This has seen SpaceX's share of global payload launched into
orbit jump from below 10% in 2014 to approaching 80% last year.
With close to 10,000 satellites already up, and 42,000 planned,
SpaceX is fast absorbing orbital slots and radio frequencies
needed by start-up competitors, creating more barriers to market
entry.

As with East India companies, SpaceX is a private firm deeply
embedded in national strategy through military and communications
objectives, argue the researchers.

It operates in a region with little authority, creating its own
rules, as did colonial-era companies, and is on track to manage
much of the access to vital spacefaring waystations such as the
moon, just as the trading companies controlled key ports.

To prevent the dangerous return of corporate-led governance for
the space age, Terzi says the U.S. government should use its
purchasing power to get competition and data access conditions
written into space contracts while there's still time, and
maintain alternative space launch capacities for backup.

He argues that the U.S. government should take a public equity
stake in SpaceX, as it did with Intel over semiconductor
manufacturing, and work with its Artemis Accord allies to ensure
the entire international bloc doesn't end up reliant on a handful
of private providers.

"The logic of the space race pushes governments to support
corporate champions, just as the logic of colonial competition
pushed early modern states to empower their chartered companies,"
added Terzi.

"The East India Company was eventually reined in, but only after
famines, financial crises, and political scandals made it
impossible to ignore. By then it had been running parts of India
for a century."

"We know what the East India Company became. We can put
structures in place to keep its twenty-first-century successor
from the same fate. The window to act is currently open, but
history suggests it will not stay that way for long."

The erosion of state power is already playing out, says Terzi.
Last summer, after a personal dispute, Donald Trump threatened to
cut SpaceX's government contracts. Musk then threatened to
decommission the Dragon capsule, which would have effectively cut
the U.S. government off from the International Space Station.

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-spacex-orbit-east-india-company.html

See also:
https://www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Outsourcing-the-final-frontier.pdf
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