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The design, launch and operation of spacecraft that carry voice, data and broadcast traffic, including military secure links and direct-to-handset services.
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 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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Ukrainian drone operators say Starshield links drop above roughly 160 km/h, a limit that aborted several missions on the night of 14 October. SpaceX has not explained it, so crews cannot tell whether it will hold.
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The offer is $54 a share, half of it cash, so about $4bn falls due at a closing the companies expect in mid-2027. Neutron's first-flight hardware is due at the pad in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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The delivery annex gives every programme a budget, an owning body and a financial year between 2026/27 and 2029/30, and its biggest line is £2.3bn for the military satellite communications work the projects authority rated red in July.
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