rocketsocks t1_j9lzpe6 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 10:54 PM

Reply to comment by sixpackabs592 in Starship greenlit for launch after static fire test by DevilsRefugee

That's not the only shenanigans, that's just one example.

OlympusMons94 t1_j9nbq1w wrote on February 23, 2023 at 4:55 AM

Which shenanigans?

Following US export laws?

Wanting to be paid for services rendered?

Not servicing enemy-occupied territories?

Not being able to instantly keep up with rapid advances and the fog of war to add service to recently-deoccupied territories?

Or just Musk's naive and ignorant tweets about Crimea and referendums that have no more bearing on Starlink or anything else in the real world than him challenging Putin to a duel?

Draemeth t1_j9myzoe wrote on February 23, 2023 at 3:08 AM

Just wait till you hear about what people have done with GPS!

Bensemus t1_j9rads6 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 12:14 AM

The other one where ~2k dishes experience a temporary outage was due to a billing issue between Ukraine, the UK, and SpaceX. That issue was quickly resolved and those dishes were active again. That was 2k out of about 25k.

Or the issue where during an offence Ukraine lost comms through Starlink. that was due to them outrunning it. SpaceX is only activating Starlink in areas Ukraine is operating in. Makes sense SpaceX wouldn't have access to classified military operations so they were slower to act than Ukraine was advancing. That was also quickly fixed as SpaceX activated more cells.