Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has received 5,000 Starlink satellite Internet terminals

At the beginning of the war, Elon Musk responded to the request of the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov, Thank you, Elon Musk: Ukraine received the first batch of StarLink satellite Internet stations. As it turned out, Ukraine has already received 5,000 such devices.

What is known

According to US Agency for International Development (USAID), 3,367 terminals worth $10 million were given free of charge to SpaceX. As for the rest of the device, they were funded by the US government.

Recall that Starlink is a global satellite system being deployed by SpaceX to provide high-speed broadband satellite Internet access in places where it was unreliable, expensive or completely unavailable.

Thanks to Starlink managed to connect the Ukrainian military to the uninterrupted satellite Internet in combat zones, hospitals, as well as many other important infrastructure centers. By the way, Vodafone engineers even managed to starlink Thanks, Elon Musk: Vodafone restored connection in Irpen and Romanovka using Starlink . 

Source: USAID

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