SpaceX tells US government that it can no longer pay for Ukraine’s Starlink service
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#64QEV)
A Starlink terminal in Ukraine. | Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images After providing tens of thousands of Starlink terminals to help Ukraine's war effort, SpaceX has told the Department of Defense that it may not be able to provide future funding for the service, CNN reports. In a letter dated September 8th, the company's director of government sales reportedly wrote that SpaceX is not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time."
The terminals have provided essential connectivity to Ukraine during its war with Russia. Putin's war machine has targeted Ukraine's communications infrastructure as part of its invasion of the country, but Starlink's satellite-based internet connectivity has provided an effective way for Ukraine's...