Chinese military researchers recently called for the destruction of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, an extraordinary threat for a state to make against a private foreign enterprise.
An unresolved problem is enhancing the dependability and quality of human connectivity, and Starlink can resolve that, which will improve decentralisation by changing bitcoin mining.
In May, Musk said that Russia was intensifying its attempts to disrupt the Starlink internet service in Ukraine. Now, a researcher has managed to hack Elon Musk’s Starlink system with a $25 homemade device.
The US military envisions a future in which battalion-sized troop vehicles powered by rocket technology could respond to emergencies anywhere in the world. Towards this end, Pentagon wants Elon Musk to drop soldiers into conflict from space.
Amazon has decided to jump into the satellite internet race against Starlink by launching 83 rockets under Project Kuiper.
With Russia attempting to demolish Ukrainian military infrastructure, notably power and the internet, Starlink is set to become even more critical in the next weeks and months, as Ukraine’s military is using Elon Musk’s Starlink to blow up Russian tanks and military targets.
Ukraine took delivery of the Starlink terminals less than 48 hours after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the service had been enabled in Ukraine to help with internet outages caused by Russia’s invasion and hacking.
