Musk Denial of Ukraine’s Starlink Request Prompts Senate Query

The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into national security issues raised by Elon Musk’s decision not to extend the private Starlink satellite network to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.

Chairman Jack Reed said in a statement that the reports on the use of Starlink exposed “serious national-security liability issues and the committee is engaged on this issue.”

“The committee is aggressively probing this issue from every angle,” he said Thursday.

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Musk’s SpaceX also has become a major US contractor, launching spy satellites for the Defense Department and operating the Starlink network. ...