The European Commission is figuring out how it could help Ukraine secure satellite communication capacity in the wake of Elon Musk reportedly threatening to pull Kyiv’s access to his Starlink…
That just seems wrong. The one thing Musk actually is relentless about is the cost-cutting, often at the expense of reliability, safety and security. Musk has literally cut the entire development aid agency of the US, which does save a bunch of money in the short term, before it predictably comes back around as US international influence lost and waves of new diseases.
Fair point. But even so, SpaceX, parent company of Starlink, has competed rather successfully with national/supranational space agencies in terms of cost.
Let’s be real, it’s a musk product, it won’t be difficult to do far better and likely for much cheaper.
That just seems wrong. The one thing Musk actually is relentless about is the cost-cutting, often at the expense of reliability, safety and security. Musk has literally cut the entire development aid agency of the US, which does save a bunch of money in the short term, before it predictably comes back around as US international influence lost and waves of new diseases.
Cost cutting ≠ Sales Price cutting
Fair point. But even so, SpaceX, parent company of Starlink, has competed rather successfully with national/supranational space agencies in terms of cost.
That, I can’t deny.
They managed the cheapest space missions in a high cost country.