SpaceX has announced a new government-focused service on its website — Starshield — which it says offers a “secured satellite network for government entities.” Its website says “Starshield is designed for government use.”
SpaceX has quietly announced a new government-focused service on its website — Starshield — which it says offers a “secured satellite network for government entities.” The page, which appeared on the SpaceX website earlier this week, says that while its satellite internet service Starlink is aimed at end users and businesses, “Starshield is designed for government use.” The announcement of Starshield follows work that SpaceX has already done with the US and other governments around the world.
'SpaceX has already signed multi-million dollar contracts with the US government' Starshield is advertised with three areas of focus: earth observation, communications, and “hosted payloads,” which CNBC notes would effectively allow governments to customize what its spacecraft can send into space. SpaceX says that Starlink already offers “end-to-end user data encryption” but that Starshield has additional security that can meet “the most demanding government requirements.
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