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This was already known in public. But the big development here is the pravda.com.ua address, a major Ukrainian newspaper who is reporting this.

I feel like the Ukrainians were feeling pressured to keep a good relationship with Elon Musk, even through this obvious betrayal. Seeing the Ukrainians speak up and out about this issue is good: people need to know how Elon Musk screwed them over and how easily his opinion is changed by phone calls from the Kremlin.

SpaceX finally gets slapped down (slightly) as its promise for 100/20 internet over rural America by 2025 seems unlikely, because Starship keeps exploding and hasn't had a successful launch yet.

> The FCC cited among its reasons SpaceX's failure to successfully launch its Starship rocket, saying "the uncertain nature of Starship's future launches could impact Starlink's ability to meet" its obligations.

Yet another example of overpromising / underdelivering. The failure for Starship to launch (without exploding) is having direct consequences on the promises it made to the Government. If these things keep exploding, there's no reason to believe that the Starlink system will have enough satellites for the promised network speeds, disqualifying SpaceX from the subsidy.

This wccftech article is pretty loose and doesn't provide much citations. I also have a very low opinion of wccftech.

But I'm also asking if anyone has more links and/or data to this story? Most people at RealTesla knows that Starlink satellites are at a low orbit, so there's a high chance that they fall out of the sky (and they are expected to fall out of the sky on a regular basis). But hopefully this can be the start of a good discussion backed with more legitimate sources.

EDIT: The focus should be on the following paragraph:

> It shows that as of July 15, 353 Starlink satellites had burnt up in the atmosphere, and this figure jumped by more than 200 spacecraft to 568 satellites as of the latest readings. As a comparison, only 248 satellites had burned up at the start of this year, so the number destroyed during the last two months is higher than the figure for the first seven months of the year.

An update on the launchpad destruction.

ESGHound did a lot of fine work here, but the mainstream press is beginning to notice how awful SpaceX's environmental situation is in that Boca Chica area.

You can bypass the paywall with archive.is: https://archive.is/Yeazz

Over on Reddit, ESGhound blogposts on SpaceX were a big hit.

This blogpost covers a number of permit-issues Elon has failed with regards to Twitter (the big flashing X sign) and SpaceX. Neither of these are surprising, but its always welcome for ESGhound to give a breakdown on just how much Elon messes these things up.