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Karp confirms Palantir continues using SpaceX Starlink and tasks hundreds of satellites for its MetaConstellation battlefield platform
“You know, I will use the best products available on the market to help our allies and hurt our adversaries... as long as the technology is reliable on the battlefield. His products work.”
Why it matters
Karp explicitly defends continued use of Starlink despite political controversy, confirming an operational supplier dependency in Palantir's defense warfare platform that customers and investors may have feared could be severed.
Investment implication
Reinforces SpaceX/Starlink's entrenched role as connectivity and imagery backbone for US defense software platforms; supports the thesis that Starlink revenue from defense/government use is durable, and that Palantir's battlefield offering depends on commercial satellite constellations.