As the SpaceX founder claims to have spent $80 million on the satellite system in the country, was some of the funding sourced from U.S. government?
It noted a press release sent by the U.S. Agency for International Development , sent on April 5, 2022, which stated how the government agency had"delivered 5,000 Starlink Terminals to the Government of Ukraine through a public-private partnership with the American aerospace manufacturer, SpaceX, a private sector donation valued at roughly $10 million."
The press release was later altered, removing reference to financial contributions, although an archive of the The article stated:"It is also unclear whether the price the U.S. government is paying for individual Starlink units matches their typical market price."cannot immediately verify the claims. The delivery of Starlink terminals to Ukraine was prompted by a request made in February 2022 from Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, asking forA screenshot of the Starlink satellite video posted to Twitter by Daichi Fujii on September 5, 2022 from Hiratsuka, Japan. There are nearly 3,000 satellites in orbit that are part of Starlink's satellite internet network.The contributions that the U.S. government made to the project were revealed later.
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