The web satellite tv for pc firm SpaceX has notified the Protection Division that they will’t fund the present Starlink satellite tv for pc web protection in Ukraine. The US authorities must make up for that.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Elon Musk and considered one of his corporations, SpaceX, began to offer the affected Ukrainian residents with satellite tv for pc web. Till now, over 25,000 Starlink satellite tv for pc items have been donated to Ukraine. According to Musk, this operation has value SpaceX $80M till now, and this quantity will exceed $100M by the top of the yr. That’s why SpaceX despatched a letter to the Protection Division and requested for assist.
As per the CNN report, SpaceX warned the Pentagon that they may cease offering the web to Ukrainian residents and the navy. After all, Musk already said that his firm isn’t asking the US authorities to recoup previous bills, and the federal government solely must pay for the present system.
The US authorities ought to donate tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to SpaceX if it desires to proceed satellite tv for pc web protection in Ukraine
The letter was despatched in September, and SpaceX’s director of presidency gross sales asserted to the Pentagon that “We aren’t ready to additional donate terminals to Ukraine or fund the present terminals for an indefinite time period.”
SpaceX says it wants over $120 million to proceed its protection in Ukraine for the remainder of the yr. Moreover, the whole operation may value round $400 million for the subsequent 12 months.
There are at the moment over 25,000 Starlink items in Ukraine, however there’s additionally an enormous demand for extra items. CNN has obtained an unreported direct request from the Ukrainian navy’s commanding basic, Normal Valerii Zaluzhniy, to Elon Musk for nearly 8,000 extra Starlink terminals. Nonetheless, the request was seemingly denied as an out of doors marketing consultant working for SpaceX wrote to Pentagon that the corporate didn’t “have the monetary potential to offer any extra terminals or service as requested by Normal Zaluzhniy.”
Now, the Pentagon must resolve whether or not they need to pay for the present Starlink service in Ukraine. With sufficient funding, Elon Musk appears to haven’t any drawback with Starlink persevering with to function in Ukraine. Although, a Ukrainian diplomat has not too long ago instructed him to “F*** off” after Musk proposed a peace plan.
