Sunday, November 6, 2022

“Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues”

This week, Ukrainian troops lost a bunch of units of energy that powered their military satellites.  Because he has to be involved in everything, Elon Musk has some connections to this: his company, SpaceX, controls some of the communication sources for Ukraine’s military.  This article explores how private companies are interacting with the US Defense Department, and how this affects other powers, both domestic and international.

Libby Gardner

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/spacex-ukraine-elon-musk-starlink-internet-outage/index.html 


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