This article is excellent. It feels to me like Starlink sort of accidentally fell into this position. They built a global Internet for consumers, then discovere

This article is excellent. It feels to me like Starlink sort of accidentally fell into this position. They built a global Internet for consumers, then discovered there's a lot of military applications. The Ukrainian adoption clearly accelerated things. But maybe that was the plan all along, space development has been a joint military project since the beginning. I appreciated the specific reporting on Musk's threat to withdraw Starlink from Ukraine over funding. As the reporting notes, "SpaceX had initially covered some of the costs, with the United States and other allies also providing funding." Previously most press had reported it as if SpaceX was paying the full bill. It never has and still isn't. Unfortunately the reporting stops short of telling us what the current financial arrangement is, I imagine it's highly confidential.