That doesn't make any sense. There's WAY more money in commercial satellite internet than there is with niche US military contracts.
I don't understand why people are so committed to assuming there's a nefarious "real motivation" behind Starlink. Global telecomms is on the order of $2 trillion in revenue per year and growing. The US military's GPS budget is about $1.5 billion. So we're talking about addressable markets 3 orders of magnitude different in size.
I don't understand why people are so committed to assuming there's a nefarious "real motivation" behind Starlink. Global telecomms is on the order of $2 trillion in revenue per year and growing. The US military's GPS budget is about $1.5 billion. So we're talking about addressable markets 3 orders of magnitude different in size.