SpaceX Asks Pentagon to Pay for Musk's 'Donated' Starlink in Ukraine

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SpaceX Asks Pentagon to Pay for Musk's 'Donated' Starlink in Ukraine
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Elon Musk Says He's Just Following Ukraine's Suggestion to 'F*ck Off' by Asking Pentagon to Fund Starlink

Roughly 85% of the 20,000 Starlink terminals that have been sent to Ukraine were already fully or partially funded by government sources, according to the documents obtained by CNN, while about 30% of the internet service for those terminals was paid for by organizations not affiliated with SpaceX.

“We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX’s director of government sales, Bryon Hargis, wrote in a letter to the Pentagon in September, according to CNN.Sad that Prime Day is over? Don’t be! Best Buy is picking up the slack with a sales event of its own. From smart TVs to earbuds to laptops, there are plenty of opportunities to save.

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