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The company SpaceX, which is owned by the American billionaire and inventor Elon Musk, is introducing restrictions on the Internet service Starlink. From now on, users of high-speed satellite Internet from SpaceX will have to monitor how much traffic they consume. The company reported that approximately 10% of service customers use more than one terabyte […]
This week, a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Moscow considers American commercial satellites working in the interests of Ukraine as “legitimate targets.” The Russian diplomat Kostiantyn Vorontsov did not specify which satellite devices he was referring to. However, it is not difficult to guess that the occupiers consider the satellites of SpaceX, […]
SpaceX has announced that its Starlink for RVs satellite Internet service will be available for vehicles in motion starting in December 2022. Previously, the service was intended for use only during parking. But soon it will be possible to use it while the car is moving, although this opportunity will cost a lot. The standard […]
The authorities of the European Union are considering the possibility of allocating funds to pay for Starlink provider services in Ukraine. This became known from Gabrielus Landsbergis, who is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. In an interview with a Politico correspondent, the Lithuanian diplomat said that this topic was raised […]
The American entrepreneur, the head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that he would still continue to finance the Starlink satellite communication terminals for Ukraine, although the day before he said that his company wanted to stop doing so. Musk wrote about this on Twitter. “To hell with it… even though Starlink is still […]
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that Russia is ‘trying to kill Starlink’. Big difference between peace comms vs warfront comms. Starlink is only comms system still working at warfront – others all dead. Russia is actively trying to kill Starlink. To safeguard, SpaceX has diverted massive resources towards defense. Even so, Starlink may still die. […]
Yesterday it became known that Elon Musk’s company SpaceX will no longer be able to finance Starlink in Ukraine and has asked the US Department of Defense to allocate funds to ensure the operation of satellite Internet. According to the company, the financing of services amounts to more than $120 million by the end of […]
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla, entrepreneur Elon Musk responded to an article published by the Financial Times, in which it is said that Starlink terminals provided to the Ukrainian military have stopped working in some areas of the front. “This article falsely claims that the Starlink terminals and service were paid for, although only […]
On September 26, Elon Musk announced that he would activate Starlink in Iran in response to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s tweet about issuing a general license to provide internet to the Iranian people. After that, the Iranian government blocked the official website of SpaceX Starlink. Activating Starlink … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September […]
Starlink noted another significant achievement — as of the end of September, more than 1 million user terminals for SpaceX satellite Internet have been released, Elon Musk reported on Twitter. Let us immediately note that the total number of Starlink terminals released since the launch of the service (since October 2020) should not be confused […]