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Starlink's first customer was supposed to be the US Army. I am curious what requirements they did not meet.
by Bender 8mo ago
Starlink's first customer was supposed to be the US Army. I am curious what requirements they did not meet.
- pantsforbirds 8mo agoThere is a separate entity, StarShield, that the US military uses. I think it's a fully separate set of satellites, but I'm not 100% on that.
- Bender 8mo ago[flagged]
- kotaKat 8mo agoIIRC it’s separate sats but same backhaul and they also leverage the same terminals?
- pantsforbirds 8mo agoThat seems entirely plausible. I based my comment on one of Elon's tweets (xeets?) about it: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2028261823678759335?s=20 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2028261823678759335?s=20
- ianburrell 8mo agoStarshield means multiple things, or really it is SpaceX business unit with military. Starshield is the name for US military buying Starlink service. It is also SpaceX building Starlink-based satellites for the military. This doesn't have to be communications, the first ones were missile defense trackers. I think the custom satellites came first and they rebranded the communications after it.