The Pentagon is buying Starlink satellite communications terminals and services from Elon Musk’s SpaceX for use by the Ukrainian military.
and services from billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX for use by the Ukrainian military, the Defense Department said.
“However, for operational security reasons and due to the critical nature of these systems, we do not have additional information regarding specific capabilities, contracts or partners to provide at this time,” it said. The statement was the latest twist in the Pentagon’s often contentious relationship with Musk over the terminals.that SpaceX wouldn’t continue to foot the bill for the portable terminals, only to reverse that position. Musk said SpaceX was spending $20 million a month to provide broadband internet to more than 150,000 Ukrainian ground stations from its Starlink system of more than 2,200 low-orbiting satellites.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by inviting Musk, the world’s richest person, to Ukraine to see “what Russia has done here.” Zelensky praised Starlink, saying that “life was maintained” thanks to the terminals.The April 20 launch of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket destroyed the structure below the launchpad, sending chunks of sand, concrete and steel thousands of feet into the sky.
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, said at a February industry conference in Washington that Starlink was being used in unintended ways, which the company has since tried to stop.
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