Musk asks Pentagon to pay for Starlink

Maintaining the Starlink terminal in Ukraine costs nearly $20 million a month, and SpaceX can’t fund the service indefinitely, Elon Musk said. Service in Ukraine has cost SpaceX $80 million, Musk said, and that figure will exceed $100 million by the end of the year. He said in a series of tweets on Friday that SpaceX cannot continue to fund the running costs of the project on its own. According to a CNN survey , there are about 20,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine, 85% of which were donated by countries and entities such as the United States and Poland, of which Poland donated up to 9,000 terminals, the United States donated 1,700, and the rest were donated by the United Kingdom, NGO and crowdfunding donations. These countries and organizations also pay 30% of the internet connection fee. Starlink’s website says the cheapest service costs as little as $60 a month, but it claims to offer the most advanced service in Ukraine at $4,500 per terminal per month.

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