The US and Elon Musk are building a machine to watch the world

Lucian Nemoiu

Satellites and AI are transforming how the world is watched, connected and targeted - and the US, along with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is at the centre of that shift. Sky News technology correspondent Rowland Manthorpe investigates the rise of a planetary watch machine and a “digital kill web”: a fast-growing network of satellites, communications infrastructure and artificial intelligence that can shorten the time between seeing a target and acting on it. The report examines how SpaceX changed access