A company launched four satellites without telling anyone, and now the government is mad

Satellite launches are back in the news again, thanks to Elon Musk's rocket hijinks and the emergence of affordable private space missions. But with the Silicon Valleyization of the space industry, you can expect some of Silicon Valley's problems to come along for the ride. Swarm Technologies is a Silicon Valley startup that has stealthily been working on a space-based communications system for years. It filed an application last year with the Federal Communications Commission to send four tiny ...