The global until Musk's satellite system disturbed the communications of the Ukrainian army: “Starlink fell all over the front”
The Starlink systems used by the Ukrainian army were put out of office for two and a half hours on Thursday night due to a global feather that affected the satellite communication provider of US billionaire Elon Musk, reports Reuters.
The Ukrainian army depends largely on the Starlink terminals. PHOTO EPA-EFE
For communications on the battlefield and for some drone operations, the Ukrainian army depends largely on the Starlink terminals of the Spacex company, these systems proving resistant to the spy and jamming operations carried out by the enemy in the nearly three and a half years since the war has begun by the Russian invasion, Agerpres.
Starlink, affected by one of the largest feathers
Last night, however, the Starlink system was affected by one of its largest global feathers.
“Starlink fell all over the front,” He wrote on Telegram on Thursday evening at 22:41 (19:41 GMT) the commander of the Ukrainian force of drone, Robert Brovdi. He then announced, around the local time 01:05, the return of Starlink communications, adding that this incident highlights the risks of addiction to a single system, and has requested the diversification of communication and connectivity methods.
An Ukrainian commander of a drone unit, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters that his unit had to postpone more fighter operations.
Deputy Director of Starlink, Michael Nicolls, confirmed the incident and explained on the Social Network X that it was caused by “The fall of the internal software services that operate the basic network”.
Through his Starlink satellite network, Elon Musk helped Ukraine keep the internet and communications operational, after launching the invasion, in February 2022, Russia destroyed Ukrainian Internet and mobile telephony. But the Ukrainian army also used these services for its offensive operations against Russian troops, to Musk's dissatisfaction.
Similar situations
A similar situation was in September 2022, when Musk asked for an engineer from the California Bureau of Spacex to interrupt the cover of Starink satellites above some areas of Ukraine, including in the Herson strategic region of Crimea and the Black Sea, while the Ukrainian army was preparing a three who are aware of this case.
In the same year, a similar episode has remained another operation of the Ukrainian army. Elon Musk then ordered his engineers to close the Starlink satellite network that acted near the coasts of the Crimean Peninsula to prevent an Ukrainian insidious attack on the Russian Fleet from the Black Sea, according to Musk's autobiographical book signed by the writer Walter Isaacson.
Currently, the Starlink network is an essential tool in support of the communications and operations of the Ukrainian army.
According to the Kiev government, until April this year, Ukraine received over 50,000 Starlink terminals. Easy to transport and use, these devices the size of a pizza box communicate with the thousands of spacechers placed on orbit. The first terminals were provided by Ukraine by Spacex, others being donations funded by Poland, the US and Germany.
