Since Russia attacked its neighbor on Thursday February 24, many tech giants have been urged by Ukraine to sever their ties with the Motherland, and even to help them.
SpaceX seems to have opted for the second option. Elon Musk announced the deployment of Starlink in Ukraine to maintain internet access to the population and the government.
Starlink deployed in Ukraine
Elon Musk intervenes in his own way in the war between Ukraine and Russia. Pressed to react to the attacks against Ukraine like many other tech players, the billionaire pledged on the night of February 26 to 27 to help Ukrainians. In a brief message posted on Twitter, the boss of Tesla and SpaceX announced the start of Starlink in Ukraine. ” Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals are on the way “wrote the American entrepreneur.
Ten hours earlier, Mykhailo Fedorov, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the digital sector and Transformation, had challenged Elon Musk on the social network asking him to provide Starlink stations to Ukraine in order to compensate for possible internet cuts. . “ While you are trying to colonize Mars, Russia is trying to occupy Ukraine. While your rockets are successfully landing from space, Russian rockets are attacking Ukrainian civilian population. We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and ask sane Russians to stand up “, he wrote.
Help with internet outages
The Starlink service allows residents of areas poorly served or not served by fixed and mobile networks of operators to have access to the Internet via a constellation of small satellites circulating in low orbit around the Earth. However, it needs ground stations communicating with these satellites, which are essential to make the network work. In fact, certain modalities for the effective availability of Starlink in the country are not yet known at this time.
It is indeed necessary to be able to transport the connection kits to the country and then to have a parabola to be fixed on the roof to connect. As the system provides a very high speed connection, it could be used to replace the infrastructure destroyed by the Russian army, or even to mitigate any cuts organized by Russia via cyberattacks and other hacking actions, especially since interruptions have been reported in Ukraine.
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Source: BFM TV
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