Astroboffins may have raged at Elon's emissions staining the sky, but all those satellites will be more boon than bother

Leap in space tech is about to democratise the cosmos

Column Industrial revolutions bring three things - social upheaval, economic explosions and massive pollution. We haven't sorted that out since the first one and we're already well into our information-based second. Now we're promised a third as space technology moves from cottage industry into mass production."