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There is a separate entity, StarShield, that the US military uses. I think it's a fully separate set of satellites, but I'm not 100% on that.
by pantsforbirds 6mo ago
There is a separate entity, StarShield, that the US military uses. I think it's a fully separate set of satellites, but I'm not 100% on that.
- Bender 6mo ago[flagged]
- kotaKat 6mo agoIIRC it’s separate sats but same backhaul and they also leverage the same terminals?
- pantsforbirds 6mo agoThat seems entirely plausible. I based my comment on one of Elon's tweets (xeets?) about it: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2028261823678759335?s=20 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2028261823678759335?s=20
- ianburrell 6mo agoStarshield means multiple things, or really it is SpaceX business unit with military. Starshield is the name for US military buying Starlink service. It is also SpaceX building Starlink-based satellites for the military. This doesn't have to be communications, the first ones were missile defense trackers. I think the custom satellites came first and they rebranded the communications after it.