Starlink
After receiving a direct request from Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, Elon Musk instructed Starlink to start using it in Ukraine and donated a large number of Starlink ground satellite receivers to Ukraine. However, following John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto, warned that Russia might use Starlink’s signals to locate and use it as a target for air strikes, Musk also warned on Twitter, saying that Starlink is currently part of Ukraine. The only non-Russian communication system with a high chance of being targeted, those who use it should be careful.
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the network situation in Ukraine has been unstable, especially the fighting and bombing around the capital Kyiv, which has seriously affected the operation of GigaTrans, the country’s main network provider, and has also made Starlink a network in many regions. The only channel for military and civilian access to information. After SpaceX sent the satellite dish, Fedorov tweeted a photo of Starlink installed on the roof and asked how to continue to use it when the power supply was unstable. Musk said in a palindrome that they will use a software update to reduce the peak power consumption of the antennas so that they can be powered by the car’s ignition. In addition, Musk also said that it will turn on the antenna roaming function especially for Ukraine, so that they can keep working in moving vehicles.
