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Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Starlink, has openly defied a Brazilian court order to block access to the social media platform X in the country, further escalating the ongoing dispute between the billionaire and Brazilian authorities.

The FCC has officially denied SpaceX’s Starlink $886 million in subsid for expanding broadband in rural areas, questioning Elon Musk’s ability to deliver the promised service.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink satellite internet service has successfully completed a rigorous nine-month testing period with the U.S. military in the Arctic. Passing the military trials opens the door to Pentagon contracts for the billionaire’s space company.

Elon Musk has said that Starlink will provide connectivity to “internationally recognized aid organizations” in the territory of Gaza, where communications have been cut amidst the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

SpaceX’s ambitious Starlink project has failed to meet Elon Musk’s initial projections for customer growth and revenue, raising questions about the viability of satellite internet in an increasingly competitive market. The company had about 1.5 million customers worldwide at the end of 2022 against a project of 20 million subscribers.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin took a moment to praise Elon Musk on Tuesday while attending the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

Elon Musk’s decision to not activate Starlink’s satellite communications during a critical moment in the Ukraine conflict has sparked a heated debate on the role of private tech companies in international affairs. Musk took to his X/Twitter platform to defend the decision by claiming, “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

A Ukrainian plot to target a Russian naval vessel was reportedly abandoned after Elon Musk denied Starlink satellite internet access.

Amazon plans to launch up to 80 satellites per month as it aims to compete with satellite-powered internet connectivity services including SpaceX and OneWeb.

OceanGate, the maritime exploration company behind the submersible Titan, which went missing with five people aboard during a trip to the wreckage of the Titanic, fired its director of marine operations after he demanded safety tests of the vehicle before it took passengers to the bottom of the Ocean. The company is also facing questions about other safety decisions, like the submersible lacking a safety beacon.

A “virtue signaling” tweet from left-wing author Stephen King was met with fierce backlash after he suggested billionaire Elon Musk — who has already spent millions of dollars supplying Ukraine with thousands of Starlink internet terminals — donate more to help the war-torn country.

Elon Musk announced on Monday that his SpaceX company has deployed almost one hundred Starlink Internet broadband connections to Iran.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is telling the U.S. government that it can no longer pay for Starlink terminals to help Ukraine’s war effort, and is asking that the Department of Defense to pick up the tab to the tune of $124 million — just to cover service through the end of 2022.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has claimed that the FCC’s rejection of an $886 million Starlink subsidy is “unreasonable” and “grossly unfair,” and that it leaves millions of Americans stranded on the “wrong side of the digital divide.”

Bad News for Subsidy King Elon Musk: FCC Rejects SpaceX’s Request for $900 Million in Aid for Starlink Internet

Elon Musk’s space exploration firm SpaceX has been awarded $885.51 million in subsidies by the FCC to provide Starlink broadband Internet service to rural homes and businesses in 35 states.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is sending “Starlink” satellites into orbit so frequently that “it will likely end ground-based astronomy as we know it,” due to the fact that they prevent scientists from viewing the night sky from earth-based observatories uninterrupted, a prominent astrophysicist has warned.

SpaceX said a bug in its “on-call paging system” prevented it from better communication and subsequent coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) to avoid a possible collision between two satellites orbiting Earth, according to a Tuesday-published report at the Verge. The ESA moved its satellite to avoid being hit by the SpaceX “Starlink” satellite.