The president of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, said today that the Ukraine military’s use of the Starlink broadband system for tactical communications has moved beyond the scope of the company’s intention in providing the service."It was never intended to be weaponized,” Shotwell said Feb. 8 at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC. “The Ukrainians have leveraged it in ways that were unintentional and not part of any agreement.”
Shotwell did not go into detail about how Ukraine has weaponized Starlink in its war with Russia, though Ukraine’s use of the satellite internet capability for battlefield connectivity and coordinating strikes has been widely reported.
