Pentagon purchases of Starlink and Starshield for Ukraine

In June 2023 the Pentagon confirmed it purchased SpaceX Starlink service for Ukraine and withheld contract terms for operational security. In December 2024 Bloomberg reported a further Pentagon contract giving 2,500 Ukrainian Starlink terminals access to Starshield, an encrypted service for government users. The reported September 2022 outages preceded those contracts. This review found no evidence of a nationwide cutoff of Ukrainian Starshield service.1–2

Documented connections

SpaceX headquarters at Starbase →SpaceX provides satellite connectivity1–2

Ukraine registers Starlink terminals →Ukraine administers terminal registration1–2

Sources and documents
  1. Pentagon statement reported by Reuters, June 2023
  2. Bloomberg, December 6, 2024

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