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Russia warns United States: use of SpaceX for spying makes its satellites a target (www.reuters.com)

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Not to mention that SpaceX has designed things so that they can piggyback starlink deployments on the back of other commercial launches. So, for example, AT&T pays them $25 million to launch a new telecom satellite, and they toss in another dozen or so starlink satellites along with it.

AT&T pays for the majority of the launch costs and starlink benefits from it.