Elon Musk's SpaceX outpaces China's 203K 'paper satellite' ambitions

By David Fickling   If orbital space is the 21st century’s high seas, China looks to be preparing an armada.  Government plans submitted late last year to the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union, or ITU, promise a fleet of 203,000 satellites to be deployed by the mid-2030s. That would dwarf the ambitions of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos: SpaceX’s Starlink network has nearly 10,000 orbiters so far, while Amazon.com Inc.’s Leo constellation will top out at just 3,232.    It sounds like an ala ...