The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced yesterday that it will send 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine. The idea is that SpaceX’s space internet network Starlink will be able to provide people in Ukraine with internet no matter where they are in the country. USAID writes in a press release:
“The Starlink satellite terminals will enable unlimited, unthrottled data connectivity from anywhere in Ukraine. The terminals will allow public officials and critical citizen service providers to continue to communicate within Ukraine and with the outside world, even if Putin’s brutal aggression severs Ukraine’s fiber optic or cellular communication infrastructure connections. “
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has previously personally arranged for a number of Starlink terminals to be sent to Ukraine. In the picture above you can check out when some of them are inspected by the former wrestling brothers Vladimir and Vitaly Klychko. Vitaly Klychko is today the mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
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Elon Musk activates and sends Starlink devices to Ukraine
After one of the country’s ministers asked for it
Elon Musk likes to help, such as when he would help rescue people trapped in a cave in Thailand in 2018. Now Musk announces, following a tweet from Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, that his SpaceX will activate and send Starlink units to the country. However, we do not know how much positive impact this will actually have. First and foremost, Starlink needs an almost perfect view of Starlink satellites to work well, so the service is not optimal in an urban environment with buildings that can block visibility. Reuters reports that NetBlocks has seen that the connection to GigaTrans, Ukraine’s state network provider, has temporarily fallen below 20 percent of normal levels. Despite the fact that the country’s internet has not been completely down yet, there is a great risk that it can be turned off at any moment.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink has arrived in Ukraine
Took only two days
On Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk promised to help Ukraine with its Internet connection by sending Starlink devices to the country. On Monday, these must have arrived. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov thanks Elon Musk in a tweet with photos of Starlink in a packed truck.
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