(Newser) – Last Friday, Elon Musk laid out on Twitter how much it's cost his SpaceX company this year to donate 20,000 or so Starlink satellite units to Ukraine: roughly $80 million, with projections by Musk that the figure will exceed $100 million by year's end. Now, it looks like the 51-year-old billionaire's firm wants help from the US government in funding the donations of these units, meant to help Ukraine in its communications efforts during the Russian invasion. CNN reports it's seen documents that include a letter sent by SpaceX last month to the Pentagon, in which it was revealed the company won't be able to keep funneling money into the initiative unless the US starts contributing tens of millions of dollars per month.

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