Specifically, SpaceX’s president Gwynne Shotwell caused a PR and policy disaster when she initially floated the idea, and openly admitted that SpaceX previously limited Ukraine’s access to the internet services that Starlink provides.
Now that the Pentagon and Uncle Sam are picking up the tab for Ukraine’s internet access, it’s unlikely that internet services in the conflict will be interrupted in the future. Even in the unlikely event that Russian forces attempt to disable Starlink satellites, there are several thousand satellites in orbit. The Starlink satellites themselves are launched into geostationary orbit, meaning it’s locked in space above a certain point on Earth by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets.
Starlink touts that its satellites provide low-latency and high speed services to people connecting to its satellites, which should be of great assistance to Ukrainian and NATO forces involved in the conflict. The news was just announced, so there will likely be more information coming out as the days go on, but unrestricted, high-speed internet access to Ukraine is unequivocally a good move by both the Pentagon and Starlink.
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