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>This issue has been such a mess, demonstrating how low reporting standards have dropped. For starters, the only thing Ukraine has been prevented from using Sta
by tguvot 4y ago
>This issue has been such a mess, demonstrating how low reporting standards have dropped. For starters, the only thing Ukraine has been prevented from using Starlink for is as a guidance system for drones.
not exactly. there were a lot of reports that starlink functionality constrained to Ukrainian territory beyond "conflict line". When during September/October counterattacks Ukrainian forces advanced, starlinks didn't function and it created operational problems.
>On top of that, SpaceX asked for the government to fund Ukraine's use of Starlink, and if they were so worried about its importance, they should've just done that.
IIRC, it was mostly funded but usaid,etc.
- mlindner 4y ago> not exactly. there were a lot of reports that starlink functionality constrained to Ukrainian territory beyond "conflict line". When during September/October counterattacks Ukrainian forces advanced, starlinks didn't function and it created operational problems. Reports that Ukrainian leadership themselves denied. Starlink regularly has regional service outages (look on the starlink subreddit and just search "outage"), even in areas where there isn't an opponent trying to actively jam it as there is in Ukraine. Occam's razor and all that.
- tguvot 4y ago>Reports that Ukrainian leadership themselves denied. they denied starlink service been shut down in general for new dishes/etc. what I described was month or more before that >Starlink regularly has regional service outages (look on the starlink subreddit and just search "outage"), i have starlink myself > even in areas where there isn't an opponent trying to actively jam it as there is in Ukraine. they can only jam it with jam. their latest advertised starlink jammer actually jams wifi ap
- mlindner 4y ago> they denied starlink service been shut down in general for new dishes/etc. what I described was month or more before that My memory was that they denied it had ever happened, and my point still stands about general unreliability issues.
- mlindner 4y ago> they can only jam it with jam. their latest advertised starlink jammer actually jams wifi ap That was not what I was referring to in my comment.