"Space Exploration Technology does not require reimbursement of past expenses, but it cannot fund existing systems indefinitely, and also provides thousands of sets of data to use additional ground terminals that exceed 100 times the typical household. This is unreasonable," Musk tweeted.
Starlink : It is a space service company SpaceX that provides high-speed Internet access services covering the world through low-Earth orbit satellite clusters. From February 22, 2018, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA and sent two small experimental communication satellites into orbit. The Starlink project was launched.
expands its service scope globally by 2021. As of January 2022, Starlink Project has launched 2,042 satellites , of which 1,495 satellites are in orbit. At the same time, SpaceX also proposed the second generation Starlink project, which will rely on Starship to launch and form a satellite constellation with a number of 29,988 satellites. The entire plan is expected to require approximately US$10 billion in expenditure.
. The current practical problem is that the plan is not implemented ideally. First, the network speed is slow and the delay is 20-40 milliseconds. Second, I am afraid of the weather, the equipment is prone to failure, which increases network delay. Third, the charge is relatively high. The entire hardware set costs US$2,500, and the monthly rent reaches US$99. Although there have been some improvements in recent times and the hardware costs have been reduced, the base is too small and the usage rate is not high.
Musk said that "Starlink" costs nearly US$20 million a month, claiming that maintaining satellite network services in Ukraine is "very expensive". He recently said that Space Exploration Technology has spent about US$80 million to launch and support Ukraine's "Starlink" network services.
CNN pointed out in its report that Space Exploration Technology Company expects to spend more than US$120 million to provide "Starlink" network services to Ukraine for the rest of the year, while this fee will increase to US$400 million in the next 12 months. "We cannot further donate terminals to Ukraine, nor can we provide funds for services in existing terminals indefinitely," CNN quoted the company's head of government sales as saying.
