Elon Musk says SpaceX has already spent almost R1.5 billion sending Starlink kits to Ukraine | BISouthAfrica
about"catastrophic" outages of the satellite internet service, the billionaire said:"This operation has cost SpaceX $80M & will exceed $100M by end of year."
Musk went on to allege that the Financial Times' reported"false claims that Starlink terminals & service were paid for, when only a small percentage have been." SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal business hours Saturday. to provide Starlink systems to Ukraine. The billionaire was quick to respond and in a matter of hours said the systems were active and more terminals were on the way.
Fedorov did not disclose to Insider how many Starlink systems had been damaged in the war zones then, but he praised the service. SpaceX has delivered 15,000 Starlink kits to Ukraine following the invasion, according to SpaceX's JuneThe US Agency for International Development paid SpaceX about $2 million for 1,333 terminals to be sent to Ukraine, according to
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