Secretary of State Antony Blinken sidestepped questions about whether SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hamstrung Ukrainian war efforts.
that officials wanted him to provide internet access all the way to Sevastopol, a port city in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Musk declined to provide the access, keen on avoiding having SpaceX be “complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation,” he said. The episode still illustrated Musk’s immense influence over government policy, particularly given Starlink’s paramount importance to Ukrainian military communications.
Musk teased that SpaceX is crafting a “Starshield” system that will entail similar functionality to Starlink, but will “be owned and controlled by the US government.”
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