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Entrepreneur Battling Communist China for Control of Earth’s ’Goldilocks Zone’


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Fresh Look America
Paul Greaney

Declan Ganley, founder and CEO of Rivada Networks, is in a fierce battle over Earth’s “Goldilocks zone”—a prime location for a low Earth orbit satellite network.

“This is the most state-of-the-art communications network that the planet will have ever seen,” Ganley told NTD’s Paul Greaney.

The network would compete directly with Elon Musk’s Starlink network. But Rivada’s permits are for an even sweeter position in space.

“Think of these as cell towers in space. This position puts you on top of the hills, and not down in the valleys … above Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation.”

Rivada is a commercial entity and plans to use the network for purely commercial purposes—licensing use of the network to businesses and governments around the world. But a network that powerful could, hypothetically, be weaponized for military use.

“Let’s say something was traveling at enormous speed, but you wanted to be able to communicate with, guide, direct it—whatever. This would be an ideal network for that,” Ganley explained.

A Chinese Communist Party-backed company is trying to sink Ganley’s plans and deploy its own network in the Goldilocks zone.