Starlink’s global “blackout” hit Ukraine’s military telecommunications

The Starlink satellite systems used by Ukrainian Army units were shut down for two and a half hours during the night, a senior commander said because of a global problem that interrupted the operation of the satellite network. Ukrainian forces are largely dependent on thousands of SpaceX Starlink terminals used for communications in the field of battles and some unmanned aircraft operations, as they have proven that they are resistant to espionage and signal interference during the battlefields. The Starlink satellite system suffered yesterday Thursday one of the largest holidays in the world when an internal software damage left tens of thousands of offline users. “Starlink was shut down all over the front,” Robert Brovdi, commander of the Ukrainian unmanned aircraft at 10:41 (19:41 GMT), wrote in a Telegram. Starlink, which has more than 6 million users […]
Source: News Beast

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