After concerns raised about Musk’s role as a defense contractor.
The existence of the one-year contract was confirmed toby Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek, who said it was awarded on September 1st. Under the deal, SpaceX will provide “Starshield end-to-end service via the Starlink constellation, user terminals, ancillary equipment, network management and other related services.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But, responding to reports of the deal on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, SpaceX founder Elon Musk wrote that “Starshield will be owned by the US government and controlled by DoD [Department of Defence] Space Force,” leaving Starlink as a “civilian network” that’s “not a participant to combat.”the Pentagon is already a “high-value buyer” of SpaceX’s rocket launches.
News of the contract has emerged after a period of intense scrutiny of SpaceX’s role in Ukraine, where it has provided internet connectivity to the country’s military as it attempts to fight back against Russia’s invading forces. In Walter Isaacson’s recently published biography of Musk, the author reported that last year,, hampering Ukraine’s military operations.
Starlink’s role in the conflict has inadvertently concentrated a great deal of geopolitical power in the hands of Musk. “Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such,” is how one policy official described his approach to the SpaceX founder in
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