Elon Musk said on Saturday that SpaceX would continue to fund Starlink Internet service in Ukraine, a day after he said he could no longer afford to do so “indefinitely,” Reuters reported.
Musk wrote on Twitter: “With him… even if Starlink continues to lose money and other companies receive billions of taxpayer dollars, we will continue to fund the government of Ukraine for free.”
It’s not clear if Musk’s offer was genuine or if he was being sarcastic.
On Friday, the world’s richest man said in a message published on Twitter that SpaceX cannot “unlimitedly” fund Starlink Internet service in Ukraine.
“SpaceX is not asking for past costs, but it also cannot indefinitely fund the existing system and send several thousand additional terminals with data usage 100 times that of the average household. This is unreasonable,” he wrote.
The CEO of SpaceX equipped Ukraine with the Starlink system in the first days of the Russian war at the request of the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov.
This technology plays an important role for the Ukrainian military, which has used it both for communication and for controlling drones and artillery.
Source: Hot News RO
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