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Chinese retailer caught selling Starlink terminals to Russia (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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SpaceX's Starlink user terminals are being openly sold in Russia, though CEO Elon Musk has denied knowledge of any such sales in the country.

The terminals, which link users with the Starlink satellite constellation are available on the Chinese company DJI's website in Russia.

The Shenzhen-based firm is better known as one of the world's leading drone producers. Soon after Russia began its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, DJI announced it would temporarily suspend business in both countries pending "compliance assessments."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Wait does this mean they are cloned like every other Chinese factory made product? Are they made in Chinese factories?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Nope, they are official resellers for China (and Mongolia?)

Edit; which in my view makes it worse, Elon probably wanted this to happen....

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ITAR is pretty direct about these situations: if you sell to a 3rd party and that 3rd party sells to an ITAR-restricted country, you're gonna get investigated HARD.

[–] randombullet 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think starshield is the only one that's ITAR controlled

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I don't know the specifics of how it applies to Starlink, but I work in telecom and just about everything I do is ITAR controlled. I don't even make the telecom devices, just equipment to test them.