So its presented in a confusing way but as I understand it, the starlink service “speed” in km/h is the speed at which a vehicle in the ground is moving and able to receive a high speed connection from the satellite network.
By capping it at 100km/h or 62 mph in the EU, Elon Musk is deliberately restricting it to basic civilian uses.
Ukraine is using starlink to control drone interceptors, which move much faster and were automatically being disconnected by starlink once they went above 100km/h
So I think Elon Musk and Donald Trump are traitors to the west and siding with Vladimir Putin in his invasion of a European Country. We must never forget what these people do - they are no friends of Europe or Europeans.
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I don’t think there really is competition to Starlink right now, so maybe a bad decision they had to make?
That’s the current case, but since this debacle various nations have ramped up plans for their own services.
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Starshield, not starlink.
Starlink is limited as its a commercial / consumer service.
Starshield is the modified, government owned version of Starlink and is allowed to be used for war purposes like interceptor drones. They fucked with starshield not starlink.
Fucking with starshield is a huge deal and should terrify all allies.
That’s why reliance on Starshield has an expiry date. Of course, for Ukraine 3 years are a long time, so Musk remains to hold power.
We’re not even friends with our next door neighbors.
Neither are we, eh.
came here for the units explanation. ty.
So wait, are they actually using Starlink or Starshield? There’s a bit of confusion about that point.
