The Ukrainian military is using the Starlink Internet to fight the Russian invasion. In an article Friday titled, "Elon Musk's Starlink helping Ukraine to win the drone war," The Telegraph described how the satellite connection helps the Ukrainian army.
The Telegraph wrote.
Amid Internet and power outages, which are expected to get worse, Ukraine is turning to the newly available Starlink system for some of its communications. Drone teams in the field, sometimes in badly connected rural areas, are able to use Starlink to connect them to targeters and intelligence on their battlefield database. They can direct the drones to drop anti-tank munitions, sometimes flying up silently to Russian forces at night as they sleep in their vehicles.
The Times of London wrote that the most sophisticated drones in the Ukrainian unit are connected using Starlink.
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Yaroslav Honchar, the unit commander, told The Times that they strike at night when Russians sleep.
AdvertisementIn an interview with The Washington Post, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said Starlink is working well.
The director general of the Russian space agency said that he was not happy about the help given to Ukraine.
He has chosen the side and I warned about it. I do not blame him personally. This is the West that we shouldn't trust.
Starlink is being used by Ukrainian civilians, though it is not clear how many. The Post quoted an anonymous source who is familiar with Starlink's effort in Ukraine as saying that there are over 5,000 Starlink terminals in the country.
According to the Post, Fedorov said his agency is working to get Starlink terminals to regions where internet access has been cut off.
The Starlink app that is used to help set up the service reached a total of 98,000 installs across Ukraine's App Store and Google Play combined, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sensor Tower gave the download number.
AdvertisementFedorov asked Musk to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine. Just 10 hours later, Musk said that the service is active in Ukraine. There are more terminals en route.
At a Caltech event, Shotwell said that he had been trying to get permission to lay down capacity in Ukraine for a month and a half.
She said that the company had been waiting for a letter formally granting landing rights, but it never came before Russian forces invaded the country. Shotwell said that the Fedorov tweet served as permission. The letter was from the minister. It was a joke.
Fedorov has posted photos of Starlink shipments. While Russia is blocking access to the internet, Ukraine is becoming more open to the world. The photos show that the original version of the Starlink dish has the same capabilities as the new version.
Musk warned on March 3 of a high probability that Russia will target the satellite dishes because Starlink is the only non-Russian communications system still working in some parts of Ukraine. Our latest software update doesn't jam.
According to The Washington Post article, Fedorov said that the devices haven't been an issue so far.
The websites of our small towns and villages are currently being attacked by the Russians, but Fedorov said there don't appear to be major Russian cyberattacks on Starlink yet.
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