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Europe: Get Satellites or Get Throttled
The temporary shutdown of Ukraine’s US-run satellite systems carried an unmistakable and urgent message for Europeans. Source: Kevin Stadnyk / Unsplash European powers must urgently break Elon Musk’s near-monopoly over military communications. It won’t be easy. It won’t be cheap. It won’t happen fast. But it’s necessary to ensure no one man can repeat the trillionaire’s treatment of Ukraine in early October, when he throttled Ukraine’s access to the Starlink and Starshield sa
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What Ukraine’s Starlink disruptions reveal about the tradeoffs involved in military commercial dependencies
Source: Bernd Dittrich / Unsplash WASHINGTON — Earlier last week, Ukrainian forces reportedly were forced to cancel drone missions amid sudden restrictions on Starshield, the military-grade version of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, that interrupted their communications. Ukrainian officials and military units reported dropped connections and lowered operation speeds, although the full extent of the disruptions and the reasons behind them remain unclear. By October 15, co
Oct 19
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