As we celebrate Elon Musk's elevation to trillionaire-hood, spare a thought for these people if you would, in whom he once invested a 10% stake. It's the people at the research park in Guildford who make commercial satellites of the sort powering the Starlink network.
Musk was intrigued at how they had reduced the cost of building satellites by orders of magnitude, which in turn inspired him to do the same with rockets. As a result a Space X rocket will soon be able to lower the cost of launching a kilogram into orbit by a factor of forty... in a virtuous circle that circles the planet.
Ed. Staff are required to use caps because they also make the sandwiches at lunchtime.
