The Pentagon awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX a one-year contract for Starshield in September.

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter on Saturday to SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk demanding that U.S. troops stationed in Taiwan get access to SpaceX’s Starshield, a satellite communication network designed specifically for the military.

The letter, obtained by CNBC and first reported by Forbes, claimed that by not making Starshield available to U.S. military forces in Taiwan, SpaceX could violate its Pentagon contract, which requires “global access” to Starshield technology.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•4 months ago

    Man, wtf. If Starlink is shut down in areas Russia already controls (it largely is), then what is the problem???

    Starlink doesn’t have fine control over what they can turn off, the world is separated into “cells”. Starlink can’t broadly turn off Starlink for ONLY Russians on the battle lines, it would affect Ukrainians too

    • Flying Squid
      1•4 months ago

      The problem is it isn’t. In fact, service was restored in Crimea.

      The problem is that it should be and it can be. And it isn’t because Elon is helping Putin out. I’m not sure why you don’t understand that.