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  • Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia (Another Wrap-Up Smear)

    07/25/2025 10:20:34 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 25, 20256:00 AM CDT | Joey Roulette, Cassell Bryan-Low and Tom Balmforth
    A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service. KYIV - During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service the billionaire provided early in the war to help Ukraine’s military maintain battlefield connectivity. According to three people familiar with the...
  • SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin clinch $13.5 billion-dollar Pentagon launch contracts

    04/04/2025 10:47:30 PM PDT · by know.your.why · 8 replies
    reuters ^ | 04/04/2025 | By Joey Roulette and Marisa Taylor
    Elon Musk's SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Friday won U.S. Space Force rocket launch contracts worth a combined $13.5 billion through 2029 to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive and complex satellites into space. The Space Force's flagship National Security Space Launch procurement program will assign roughly 54 missions through 2029 in incremental task orders, according to its Space Systems Command office.
  • NASA suspends SpaceX’s $2.9 billion moon lander contract after rivals protest

    05/02/2021 1:15:26 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 55 replies
    The Verge (Crox, er, Vox Media) ^ | April 30, 2021 | Joey Roulette (Russia Russia Russia!)
    NASA has suspended work on SpaceX’s new $2.9 billion lunar lander contract while a federal watchdog agency adjudicates two protests over the award, the agency said Friday... Elon Musk's SpaceX was picked by NASA on April 16th to build the agency's first human lunar lander since the Apollo program, as the agency opted to rely on just one company for a high-profile contract that many in the space industry expected to go to two companies... SpaceX’s private Starship development will likely continue.A digital illustration of SpaceX's Starship lunar lander sitting on the Moon's surface, as proposed to NASA under its...