Rocket Smoke and Deregulation: How Trump and Musk Are Polluting the Final Frontier

A quiet regulatory rollback is letting billionaires burn the sky—and gutting the science that could stop it.

The night sky has never been more active. Rockets launch weekly, streaking across the atmosphere, and constellations of Starlink satellites orbit above us like glowing pearls. To many, it's the golden age of space exploration. But to those watching more closely, it's something darker: the quiet dismantling of environmental safeguards in the name of prof…