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Thursday, November 03, 2022

CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS PRAISES MUSK FOR ASSISTANCE

But assistance for what?

Well, read this from Pentagon Praises Musk, Treasury Dept Targets‘Chief Twit’ with Investigation :

SpaceX regularly contracts with the Pentagon and some allied militaries to launch satellites, and has aided the White House’s proxy war in Ukraine by providing the country with internet free of charge. Through its ‘Starlink’ network floating in low-Earth orbit, SpaceX has enabled Ukrainian forces to maintain connection throughout the eight-month conflict, with top officials in Kiev saying the service has been critical in their war effort. 

While SpaceX appealed to the US military for reimbursement for those services – claiming it had spent hundreds of millions on the project, and that Russian cyber-attacks were making the system more difficult to maintain – it dropped the request after CNN released documents detailing its communications with the Pentagon. Musk later announced that Ukraine’s government would continue to receive Starlink for free.


 

 

 

 

 


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