Elon Musk says SpaceX can’t help fund Ukraine Internet indefinitely


SpaceX “is not asking to recoup past expenses” on Starlink services in Ukraine, Musk said on Twitter, but it also cannot sustain the financial support or send thousands more terminals to Ukraine. — Reuters

Elon Musk warned his company SpaceX cannot help carry the cost of high-speed broadband Internet for Ukraine indefinitely, after an earlier furor over his public comments suggesting the government in Kyiv cede territory in exchange for peace with Russia.

SpaceX “is not asking to recoup past expenses” on Starlink services in Ukraine, Musk said on Twitter, but it also cannot sustain the financial support or send thousands more terminals to Ukraine. The Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine are using data as much as 100 times the amount of typical households, Musk added. A week ago he tweeted that Starlink in Ukraine had cost SpaceX US$80mil (RM376.24mil), which would likely surpass US$100mil (RM470.30mil) by the end of the year.

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