Billionaire Elon Musk says his space company SpaceX cannot keep funding its Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine 'indefinitely' and has sent a letter to the Pentagon to make that point.
October 14, 2022, 7:54 PMA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 4-20 mission, launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sept. 4, 2022.Billionaire Elon Musk says his space company SpaceX cannot keep funding its Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine "indefinitely" and has sent a letter to the Pentagon to make that point.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 4-20 mission, launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sept. 4, 2022.Late Friday, Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon's deputy press secretary, confirmed receipt of the letter that touched on the funding of Starlink.
Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, Musk offered free terminals that link with Space X satellites to help the beleaguered country maintain internet communications with the rest of the world.
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