{"id":1700525,"date":"2022-10-17T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700525"},"modified":"2022-10-17T18:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T22:03:46","slug":"pentagon-appears-to-reverse-course-on-paying-musk-for-starlink-in-ukraine-musk-also-appears-to-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-appears-to-reverse-course-on-paying-musk-for-starlink-in-ukraine-musk-also-appears-to-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Appears To Reverse Course On Paying Musk For Starlink In Ukraine, Musk Also Appears To Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagon-appears-to-reverse-course-on-paying-musk-for-starlink-in-ukraine-musk-also-appears-to-shift%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p data-content-child-index=\"0-0\" data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">U.S. officials appear to have reversed course on not paying SpaceX for its Starlink satellites over Ukraine, which have provided the country a military advantage as it battles Russian forces, and now the company\u2019s CEO is suggesting that it does not want to be paid, even though it recently demanded payment.<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/13\/politics\/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Thursday that the charitable contributions from SpaceX were likely coming to end after the company warned the Department of Defense in that it needed to start paying tens of millions of dollars per month to keep the terminals up and running.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that a September letter from SpaceX asked the Pentagon to pay for Ukraine\u2019s government to continue using the system which would cost \u201cmore than $120 million for the rest of the year and could cost close to $400 million for the next 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s director of government sales wrote to the Pentagon, \u201cWe are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk backtracked over the weekend on the company demanding payment for its services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hell with it,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-hell-with-it-elon-musk-reverses-course-on-starlink-decision-in-ukraine\">said<\/a>, \u201ceven though Starlink is still losing money &#038; other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we\u2019ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/17\/pentagon-starlink-funding-ukraine-00062103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Monday that U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation said that the Department of Defense wanted to pay for the satellites to continue operating over Ukraine because the U.S. did not like Musk\u2019s unpredictability. Funding for the effort would likely come out of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative which has been used to purchase things needed for the country\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n<p>European officials are now also getting involved in discussions on funding Starlink as Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-consider-pay-elon-musk-starlink-spacex-internet-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Politico Europe that the ability of Ukraine\u2019s military to operate via satellite should not be determined by one \u201csuper-powerful\u201d person who could just randomly decide one day to shut off Ukraine\u2019s internet access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI figured that it\u2019s probably way better to have this as a contractual agreement between, let\u2019s say, a coalition of countries that could purchase a service from Mr. Musk, the Starlink service, and provide it to the Ukrainians and keep on providing it to Ukrainians,\u201d Landsbergis said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to the Politico report by appearing to suggest that he did not want to be paid for the satellite\u2019s service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX has already withdrawn its request for funding,\u201d Musk said. \u201cTo be precise, 25,300 terminals were sent to Ukraine, but, at present, only 10,630 are paying for service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To be precise, 25,300 terminals were sent to Ukraine, but, at present, only 10,630 are paying for service<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1582098412501364736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials appear to have reversed course on not paying SpaceX for its Starlink satellites over Ukraine, which have provided the country a military advantage as it battles Russian forces, and now the company\u2019s CEO is suggesting that it does not want to be paid, even though it recently demanded payment. 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