Jeff Bezos earlier this year signed into X to post a photo of a tortoise. No explanation. Space industry nerds, though, immediately read between the lines, seeing the Amazon.com founder as the steadier, if slower, competitor in a two-person race to the stars. The hare? That would be Elon Musk, chief executive and founder of SpaceX, which for years has ranged far ahead of Bezos’ companies’ efforts in building rockets, designing satellites and extending humans’ reach into space. This week Bezos looks to forge ahead. Amazon struck an $11 billion deal to boost its nascent satellite internet business, buying satellite…

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