Pirate Radio Swarm Lyrics

Gather around, I'll tell you a tale

Take some notes and drink up your ale

Space is big, on that we agree

But you can't escape the FCC

Swarm Technologies had new ships

Barely the size of computer chips

Tiny, compact, and without much RAM

But they didn't get licensed by Uncle Sam

Space Piracy is here

Newest scourge of the final frontier

Pirate radio broadcast away

A new golden age began that day

Launched on India's PSLV

Thought they'd escape U.S. policy

Tightly packed in a payload berth

Four SpaceBEEs launched off the Earth

Testing satellite internet

Comms devices with which to connect

Broadcast on unlicensed frequency

The first true case of space piracy

Space Piracy is here

Newest scourge of the final frontier

Pirate radio broadcast away

A new golden age began that day

Just too small to be tracked from the ground

Space traffic management worries abound

Causing high risk of orbit debris

Didn't concern Swarm Technologies

SpaceFlight Services still let them go

Despite no license for radio

Interference that sensors could see from

Stepping on other high frequencies

Space Piracy is here

Newest scourge of the final frontier

Pirate radio broadcast away

A new golden age began that day

Nine hundred grand Swarm had to pay

For the illegal broadcast that day

Seems like just a slap on the wrist

Since this bad activity shouldn't exist

But they kept the Feds at bay

Their one-hundred satellites orbit today

Business funding poured right in

To pay the fine for their orbital sin

Space Piracy is here

Newest scourge of the final frontier

Pirate radio broadcast away

A new golden age began that day

Venture capital funding was earned

So, from this, what did Swarm learn?

Piracy pays but that's not good advice

Cause in orbital commons we all must play nice

Let's not reward this piratical bluff

Space traffic management's dang'rous enough

We must protect our orbital home

To prevent the start of Kessler Syndrome

Space Piracy is here

Newest scourge of the final frontier

Pirate radio broadcast away

A new golden age began that day

Space Piracy is here

Newest scourge of the final frontier

Pirate radio broadcast away

A new golden age began that day