Musk’s admission converts what had been an indirect and officially denied episode into a statement of intent from the person with authority over the decision, and it relocates the dispute from whether throttling occurred to who holds the right to allocate battlefield bandwidth.
Ukrainian officials publicly accused Starlink of imposing frontline restrictions, warning of strain in the US partnership and demanding full service restoration.
SpaceX’s Starship lifted off from its Starbase in Texas, beginning humanity’s first complete orbital flight test mission carried out by a fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch vehicle, with multiple Starlink V3 satellites reaching orbit on board, marking a critical step in the maturity of the long-developed megarocket and laying the technical foundation for subsequent commercial crewed deep-space exploration.
BBC reports on a clandestine network smuggling SpaceX Starlink terminals into Iran to help citizens bypass the government’s prolonged internet blackout.