U.S. officials appear to have reversed course on not paying SpaceX for its Starlink satellites over Ukraine, which have provided the country a military advantage as it battles Russian forces, and now the company’s CEO is suggesting that it does not want to be paid, even though it recently demanded payment.
CNN reported Thursday that the charitable contributions from SpaceX were likely coming to end after the company warned the Department of Defense in that it needed to start paying tens of millions of dollars per month to keep the terminals up and running.
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The report said that a September letter from SpaceX asked the Pentagon to pay for Ukraine’s government to continue using the system which would cost “more than $120 million for the rest of the year and could cost close to $400 million for the next 12 months.”
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