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.”
Wait does this mean they are cloned like every other Chinese factory made product? Are they made in Chinese factories?
Nope, they are official resellers for China (and Mongolia?)
Edit; which in my view makes it worse, Elon probably wanted this to happen…
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.
I think starshield is the only one that’s ITAR controlled
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.