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Recently, Ukrainian military experienced a partial outage due to 1300 Starlink terminals going offline because of a funding shortfall.
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Despite Elon Musk's assurance that his company would continue to pay the cost of Starlink usage,
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The blackout was caused by ongoing negotiations between SpaceX and Defense.
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"Negotiations continue. Everyone in our building is aware that we are going to pay them," a top Pentagon official said to the network.
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He added that the Defense Department wanted to see something written: "because we fear he will change his mind."
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SpaceX wrote to the Pentagon in September asking it to pay expenses related to Ukraine using its Starlink internet service.
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Musk appeared to reverse his decision to request assistance from the US government on October 15 after public outrage.
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Musk wrote, "To hell with it...we'll just continue funding Ukraine govt free," and later told The Financial Times that he would continue to do so "indefinitely."
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