Elon Musk activates Starlink to help keep Ukraine's internet up and running
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's internet was sent staggering. Georgia Tech's Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) project, which monitors the internet, reported serious outages in Ukraine starting late on February 23.
In response to this and other internet attacks, Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov requested help from SpaceX and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.
Musk responded on Twitter, where he wrote, "Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route."Starlink, SpaceX's low-earth orbit (LEO) high-speed, low-latency internet service, is considered far more reliable than conventional broadband. One person on Twitter summed it up nicely: "The people of Ukraine now have access to the fastest, most robust satellite internet system ever created. This makes it impossible for Russia to disable the Ukrainian internet access fully without cyber attacking foreign data centers."
