“The interesting thing about Starlink is that it is doing what many in the Military said shouldn’t be done.”
It is a joint Musk/Military operation. We have no clue which payloads are military and which are civilian because he is putting up both even though they are all labelled “Starlink”.
“The rocket will launch the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, consisting of two satellites owned by Space Norway.”
....SpaceX is knee deep in military launches. Remember Norway ¤ NATP and this birds service all areas 65N and up look at a globe which country is that targeted at hint it’s not Norway.
https://spacenorway.no/en/heosat/
The satellites will have the following payloads:
X-band for the Norwegian Armed Forces
Ka-band for Viasat
A payload for the US military.
One of the satellites will include a radiation monitoring instrument built by the Norwegian company IDEAS and ESA. This will gather information about the radiation environment in the satellite orbits and contribute important information for the planning of radiation protection for the next generation of Galileo satellites (Europe’s navigation system).