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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by walrus01 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:27PM (#34008891)
The military wanting to spend money on a starlink like low earth orbit system is nothing new or surprising.

They have been spending vast amounts of money on various types of geostationary based two-way satellite communications technology for 40 years. And they currently do so on some very low term projects and contracts.

Remember that the US DoD is what saved Iridium too.

They are always on the lookout for new or better tech.

Musk entirely aside for the moment, fact is that the starlink Redmond team has been first to market with something that is WAY ahead of kuiper, oneweb, telesat or any other leo satellite network in real world results.

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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by sitkack on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:19PM (#34009526)
Didn't the Redmond team get liquidated?
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ... by kjksf on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:46PM (#34009827)
What happened was: Musk was unhappy with progress so he fired bunch of executives and promoted others to take their job.

And voila: the new team successfully launched Starlink.

Remind me, what was the other company where Musk fired a bunch of people? It's been in the news recently.

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