WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday members of Elon Musk’s DOGE government reform team did not make the agency’s decision to test Starlink terminals.
Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau also said at a U.S. Senate hearing that no Starlink terminals have been plugged into the air traffic control system and he said no DOGE employees are involved in the decision-making process around the deployment of additional terminals.
Musk’s SpaceX owns Starlink. The FAA said earlier this month it was testing 8 Starlink terminals in Alaska to restore access to weather information and in Oklahoma City and Atlantic City.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
