Slobodian and Tarnoff, viii: "[Musk] sells the fantasy that, in an increasingly unstable world, both states and individuals can fortify their self-reliance by plugging into his infrastructures. The paradox is that, in doing so, you become reliant on him. What is sold as techno-sovereignty is entry into Musk's walled garden, to which he holds the master key. Both the Pentagon and NASA depend on SpaceX; Starlink has become indespensable on the battlefield and in the wilderness; X and Grok are being woven into the state."
also "sovereignty-as-a-service," p. 40
39: "By 2025, SpaceX accounted for 95 percent of all orbital launches in the United States and more than half of all launches globally--a position that made the Pentagon, NASA, and other government agencies deeply reliant on Musk"