❗️🛰 CNN: Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues 🇺🇦💰
SpaceX sent a letter in September to the Pentagon claiming it had spent almost $100 million funding Starlink in Ukraine and that it could no longer continue to do so.
Days later Musk appeared to reverse course, claiming that SpaceX had withdrawn the request.
Musk's control of the signal gives him significant sway over the battlefield at a time when he has come under heavy criticism for arguing that Ukraine should sue for peace and give up some of its territory.
SpaceX charged APU $2,500 per month to keep each of the 1,300 units connected, bringing the total cost to almost $20 million by early fall. Eventually, the impoverished Ukrainian military could no longer pay.
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SpaceX sent a letter in September to the Pentagon claiming it had spent almost $100 million funding Starlink in Ukraine and that it could no longer continue to do so.
Days later Musk appeared to reverse course, claiming that SpaceX had withdrawn the request.
Musk's control of the signal gives him significant sway over the battlefield at a time when he has come under heavy criticism for arguing that Ukraine should sue for peace and give up some of its territory.
SpaceX charged APU $2,500 per month to keep each of the 1,300 units connected, bringing the total cost to almost $20 million by early fall. Eventually, the impoverished Ukrainian military could no longer pay.
#Ukraine
#Musk
#satellite_units
#English 🇬🇧
InfoDefenseENGLISH,
InfoDefense
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