Ukrainian officials say SpaceX cut Starshield service to any drone or vehicle moving faster than 160 km/h this week. Musk says the U.S. government controls Starshield, while Trump says it was not him and he does not think it was Musk.
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Musk proposed the Oct. 14 Starlink speed cap on Ukrainian forces to Trump, the Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk had said on X that the U.S. government decides any limits, and SpaceX applied the cap without warning Kyiv.
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Reuters reports, citing U.S. and Western officials, that the Oct. 14 Starlink slowdown on Ukraine's military was ordered from inside the White House. A senior U.S. official denied it came from Trump; no one has named who issued it.
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Ukraine's military can use Starshield on the move again, a Defense Ministry source says, after a speed limit disrupted drone missions. The cause is unexplained, and officials are in talks with SpaceX and its partners to find it.
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SpaceX imposed a speed limit on Starlink terminals mounted on Ukrainian drones overnight, Zelenskyy adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said Wednesday. SpaceX and the White House did not immediately comment, so the political motive he alleges rests on his word alone.
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A Ukrainian regiment commander says a one-day Starshield restriction cost drones and missions
Ukrainian commanders report lost drones and failed missions after a one-day Starshield restriction, Fast Company reported. Elon Musk said this week that decisions about the system's use rest with the U.S. military and, ultimately, the president.
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Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said on Oct. 14 that SpaceX capped Starlink's StarShield military service package at 100 mph on moving terminals. A Defense Ministry source says the cause is under investigation.
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SpaceX's reported $8 billion spectrum purchase is under a tenth of TD Cowen's network estimate
SpaceX's Grain spectrum purchase, put at nearly $8 billion by a source, is under a tenth of the more than $80 billion TD Cowen says a mobile network would cost. The build would draw on the same cash as Starship, AI infrastructure and the Terafab chip factory.
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Starlink asks every satellite operator to share maneuvers ahead of time
Starlink is encouraging every satellite operator to share maneuvers ahead of time, citing around 164,000 near-miss events in six months. It calls Stargaze free to all operators, though DatacenterDynamics describes the map behind it as proprietary.
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Ukraine's defence adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov says an unannounced 100 mph speed cap on Starshield's military package caused several missions to fail. Accounts of who imposed it conflict, so supplier risk and political risk cannot yet be separated.
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Eutelsat rose 25% in five days on Ukraine's Starlink curbs while SES added 2.6% in a session
Eutelsat shares rose 25% in five days after Kyiv said SpaceX curbed its military Starlink service, CNBC reported. SES rose 2.6% in the session Eutelsat traded 23% higher, and Deutsche Bank expects Eutelsat to give back some of the gain.
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Senators ask Pentagon watchdog to trace Starlink's reported 100 mph cap on Ukraine's drones
A bipartisan group of US senators asked the Pentagon inspector general to find who caused Starlink's 12-14 October speed limits in Ukraine. Elon Musk, whose SpaceX owns both Starlink and Starshield, says the US military sets limits on Starshield.
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buildConfirmed7 publishers xAI's Grok Voice 3.0 tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index at $0.08 a minute, the same price as Grok Voice 2.0. The cost case is a per-task comparison with two rivals, and runtimewire reports text input is billed separately.
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CBS News, citing multiple sources, reports the US may have deliberately withheld missile-launch warnings from Ukraine in the week Russian strikes killed six. Allies that rely on US warning data now have two reported gaps to weigh, this week's and one earlier this year.
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Jio Platforms set a Rs 1,065 to Rs 1,119 price band for up to 270 million new shares, a valuation near $108 billion at the top. No existing holder, Google and Meta included, is selling, so the October 21 offer tests demand for about 3% of the company.
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Starship reaches orbit for the first time on 14th test flight, carrying Starlink satellites
SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on Sept. 28, its 14th test flight, carrying the first Starlink V3 satellites, space.com reported. Whether Starlink is a detour from Mars or the destination is where its two quoted analysts part ways.
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United says nearly half its flights now have Starlink Wi-Fi, with a new tool to check yours and full fleet coverage targeted by the end of 2027. The checker is dependable only close to departure, because aircraft swaps can still change the answer.
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Elon Musk said the US military and ultimately the president decide Starshield speed limits, after a 100mph cap cut Ukrainian weapons off Starlink. The US government has not commented, so his account of who sets the limits is unconfirmed.
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A 100mph Starlink cutoff leaves most of Ukraine's behind-the-lines strike drones inoperable
Ukraine's military says Starlink stopped working on terminals moving faster than 100mph on Tuesday night. Elon Musk says the US government set the limit, and the White House has not confirmed or denied it.
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Musk says the US military and president set Ukraine's Starshield speed limit
Ukraine said Wednesday that SpaceX abruptly limited its military-grade Starlink access without warning. Musk replied on X that the US government owns Starshield and that the US military and president decide any limits.
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