{"id":247543,"date":"2022-10-16T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=247543"},"modified":"2022-10-16T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T00:54:00","slug":"in-reversal-elon-musk-says-will-keep-funding-starlink-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/10\/16\/in-reversal-elon-musk-says-will-keep-funding-starlink-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"In Reversal, Elon Musk Says Will Keep Funding Starlink In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"In Reversal, Elon Musk Says Will Keep Funding Starlink In Ukraine\" alt=\"In Reversal, Elon Musk Says Will Keep Funding Starlink In Ukraine\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/nvsn4vf8_elon-musk-reuters_625x300_14_October_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Musk had said on Friday that SpaceX would not be able to pay for Starlink in Ukraine indefinitely. (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Washington: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk on Saturday announced that his company would continue to pay for Starlink satellite internet in war-torn Ukraine, a day after suggesting he cannot keep funding the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hell with it,&#8221; the world&#8217;s richest man wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Even though Starlink is still losing money &amp; other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we&#8217;ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk had said on Friday that SpaceX would not be able to pay for Starlink in Ukraine indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>And the US military confirmed it was communicating with the billionaire&#8217;s company about funding for the key network.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The hell with it \u2026 even though Starlink is still losing money &amp; other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we&#8217;ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1581345747777179651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The discussions come as Musk has been embroiled in public spats with Ukrainian leaders who were angered by his controversial proposals for de-escalating the conflict, which included acknowledging Russian sovereignty over Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink, a constellation of more than 3,000 small satellites in low Earth orbit, has been vital to Ukraine&#8217;s communications as it fights against Russia&#8217;s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has donated some 25,000 ground terminals to Ukraine, according to an updated figure given by Musk last week.<\/p>\n<p><quillbot-extension-portal\/><quillbot-extension-portal\/><quillbot-extension-portal\/><\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/in-reversal-elon-musk-says-will-keep-funding-starlink-in-ukraine-3435310\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Musk had said on Friday that SpaceX would not be able to pay for Starlink in Ukraine indefinitely. (File) Washington: Elon Musk on Saturday announced that his company would continue to pay for Starlink satellite internet in war-torn Ukraine, a day after suggesting he cannot keep funding the project. &#8220;The hell with it,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5809,155421,31043,10534,2081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}