Billionaire Elon Musk said his space company SpaceX cannot keep funding its Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine indefinitely.
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.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.
Late Friday, Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon's deputy press secretary, confirmed receipt of the letter that touched on the funding of Starlink. "There's not just SpaceX, there are other entities that we can certainly partner with when it comes to providing Ukraine with what they need on the battlefield," said Singh. "I'm not going to show our hand right now on exactly what those are or who we're talking to."
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