Ukraine is fears that its troops may lose access to Elon Musk is crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the militarys satellite units went offline according to two sources familiar with the outage.
The small easy to use satellite dishes made b Musk s private rocket company SpaceX have been universally hailed as a game changing source of communication for Ukraine is military allowing it to fight and stay online even as cellular phone and internet networks have been destroyed in its war with Russia. But concerns have risen recently over the dependability of SpaceX after discussions about funding were revealed and outages were reported near the frontlines.
CNN first reported that SpaceX sent a letter in September to the Pentagon claiming it had spent almost $100 million funding Star link in Ukraine and that it could no longer continue to do so. The letter requested that the Defense Department take over more of the funding for Ukraine is military which it calculated would run tens of millions of dollars a month. Days after the CNN report Musk appeared to reverse course claiming that SpaceX had withdrawn the request. The hell with it Musk tweeted we all just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.
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