This could be related (no news articles as of yet—too insignificant?)
- "Entire Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs office at NOAA fired (self.space)"
- "The Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs (CRSRA) directorate at NOAA is the licensing body in the US for remote sensing space platforms. I interact with this office as part of my job in the industry, and we received notice that everyone in the office was fire this week as part of the ongoing gutting of the federal government."
https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1j1ww74/entire_comme... (4 days ago)
And thats why kids India set their own satellite navigation because USA cannot be trusted. navic. And isro made satellite imagery
US is becoming utterly unreliable & it’s going to turn into a problem on the cloud side. All the EU clouds are ahem modest
More acts of surrender here: http://hotdogeatingsurrendermonkeys.com/
Is there any legal reason why they should comply with such a request?
"If Denmark gives us Greenland, we will help Ukraine".
Cutting off imagery and Starlink are going to seriously ream the performance of the Ukrainian front, which is arguably even more heavily dependent on that than on US military hardware. Ukraine has used these advantages over Russia to exceed all expectations; I've heard things like a 3:1 RU:UKR casualty rate on lines where Ukraine is outnumbered 5:1, with 80% of casualties caused by drones and most of the rest by artillery. Much of that is informed by fast-cadence imagery and organized by Starlink.
Europe and Ukraine possess only very limited ways to mitigate those losses.
This betrayal is going to kill a lot of people.