Russia Tried to Hold Ukraine’s Internet Hostage, Then SpaceX Stepped In

[jim bell]

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-tried-hold-ukraine-internet-165000633.html

And now the Pentagon is green with envy.
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SpaceX’s successful intervention in Ukrainian satellite signal-jamming is a model for the Pentagon, officials say.   


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Russian electronic jamming affected Starlink satellite internet receivers sent to Ukraine.

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SpaceX quickly issued a fix for the jam, something the Pentagon says current rules won’t allow the public sector to do.


The U.S. Department of Defense is casting envious eyes on Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the aerospace company swiftly responded to an “electronic warfare attack” in Ukraine last month. SpaceX donated Starlink terminals to Ukraine to help the country stay connected in wartime, but Russian signal-jamming attempted to thwart those plans. The notoriously bureaucratic Pentagon says it’s a model for responding to threats that it can’t currently match—but desperately needs to.




Back in February, Ukraine’s government appealed to SpaceX for a shipment of Starlink satellite internet terminals. The terminals supplemented Ukraine’s prewar internet infrastructure, which has seen reduced service due to damage from the war and Russian hacking. Starlink quickly shipped 5,000 terminals to Ukraine, with 3,667 donated by SpaceX and the remaining 1,333 purchased by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The first shipment of terminals arrived just two days after the appeal.

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