Uzza2

Uzza2 t1_jedwsr6 wrote

While Rocketlab is doing impressive stuff in the small launch market, and is actually trying to be competitive in the future with Neutron, I don't see how they can be called the best space company when SpaceX exists.
There exists basically no real competitors to what SpaceX is doing right now, and the work they've done on reusability in the past 10 years has done more to advance spaceflight than anyone else the past 40 years.
Starship is going to be an even bigger jump, and I don't think people realize just how big of an impact it is going to have.

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Uzza2 t1_ix5s0p3 wrote

There are many organizations that have supplied/donated Starlink terminals to Ukraine. Some are paying for the monthly costs while others, like the one you're referencing, can't afford to do that and are requiring that someone else foots the bill until Ukraine can pay it back.
This batch of terminals in question were to be continued to be funded by the UK government, but they decided that there were more important places to allocate the funding for Ukraine than paying for the terminals, so the subscription for them lapsed, and the terminals was removed from the frontlines in anticipation of it.

All other subscriptions being funded by other organizations, or the ones that SpaceX are providing free of charge, are still operational.

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