How Elon Musk's Starlink satellite network is aiding the Ukrainian war effort

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Just after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Elon Musk said Starlink — the satellite internet network manufactured by his company SpaceX — was active in Ukraine.

.” By May, there were 150,000 active daily users in the country, according to Fedorov. Fifteen thousand terminals — which are about the size of a pizza box and connected to a dish-type antenna — were in use in Ukraine as of June 5. Whatever Musk’s reputation may be at home, in Ukraine he is almost universally regarded as a hero; ditto, thanks to the United Kingdom’s outsize security assistance. Neither Musk nor SpaceX responded to Yahoo News’ requests for comment for this story.

In addition to Starlink and these jury-rigged drones, Kito uses specially designed software GIS Arta, nicknamed “Uber for Artillery,” which uses the drone relay to record the strikes on enemy positions. “The army gets real-time video of their shells landing,” according to Kito. “It makes their fire vastly more accurate.”

A person looks at a smartphone near a SpaceX Starlink internet terminal installed on a flower bed in May in Vorzel, Ukraine. “Once you hook up a 3D printer to a Starlink system you can effectively print many of the day-to-day things refugees will need,” such as building materials and tools, Yuri Vlasyuk, a member of the team behind the project, told Yahoo News.Starlink’s utility in Ukraine has not gone unnoticed by the U.S. military. In July, the U.S. Air Force

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