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's company doesn't want the Ukrainian military using the service to control its battlefield drones, which conduct a variety of operations from scouting to dropping bombs. Starlink service was"never, never meant to be weaponized," SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell said Wednesday during the 25th annual Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C., according to Reuters.
"However, Ukrainians have leveraged it in ways that were unintentional and not part of any agreement," she added. Control of battlefield drones is one such verboten application, in SpaceX's eyes; Shotwell mentioned this use at the conference, Reuters reported, and it's clear that the company's higher-ups are not okay with it.
"There are things that we can do to limit their ability to do that," Shotwell said."There are things that we can do, and have done."
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