SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk is offering a free satellite-based Internet service in Ukraine through his Starlink company, while Russia is invading the nation and causing blackouts.
Starlink is a growing network of small satellites that has been SpaceX built since 2018 to provide broadband Internet access worldwide. On Monday, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov he tweeted that a truck full of Starlink terminals had landed in Ukraine, after requesting them.
Starlink – here. Thanks, @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/dZbaYqWYCf
– Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 28, 2022
Fedorov had appealed to Musk in a tweet On Saturday, he was asked to extend Starlink’s high-speed broadband Internet services to the besieged country, rhetorically stating that “while trying to colonize Mars, Russia is trying to occupy Ukraine!”
@elonmusk, while trying to colonize Mars – Russia tries to occupy Ukraine! As your rockets successfully land from space, Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civilians! We ask that you provide Starlink stations in Ukraine and that you address the sensible Russians to stand up.
– Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 26, 2022
Apparently, Musk complied, tweeted on Saturday that the Starlink service was active in Ukraine and also agreed to send more Starlink terminals to expand the country’s bandwidth.
“The Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route,” Musk said he tweeted.
The Starlink service is already active in Ukraine. More terminals en route.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2022
The invasion of Russian troops has disrupted Ukraine’s Internet infrastructure, rendering the service unreliable and uneven in parts of the country.
The Starlink service, whose website is “ideal for rural and remote communities” and other sites where Internet connections have historically been unavailable, is expected to be more reliable than terrestrial systems that are currently out of service. .
A Starlink terminal costs $ 499. The system was recently used to restore communications to remote villages in Tonga after a volcanic eruption caused a tsunamicutting off internet service.
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