'To hell with it,' Musk said on Twitter adding that SpaceX will keep funding Ukraine's Starlink after all.
CNN reported
that SpaceX wrote the Pentagon in September to say the company could no longer cover Starlink service in Ukraine for free, adding that it would cost the company to $120 million for the rest of 2022 and an estimated $400 million for the next 12 months. "We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time," the letter stated.
and SpaceX began sending Starlink terminals that allow access to the company's satellite internet service to Ukraine in late February shortly after Russian troops invaded and a public call for aid from Ukrainian officials. before Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's vice prime minister and the country's minister of digital transformation, put out the call for help via Twitter on Feb. 26. By Feb. 28, the first Starlink terminals were on the ground in Ukraine.
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