War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday suggested a violation of Starshield’s terms of service could have led to the speed of the communication systems used by Ukraine being throttled.
The Cabinet official’s comments come as conflicting accounts have emerged over who ordered a slowdown of Starshield, the military version of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network developed by SpaceX under contract with the War Department and used by Ukraine in its war against Russia.
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