Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink
ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 day agoHere you are acknowledge that ground-based systems are very vulnerable to attack.
Which includes the ground stations that Starlink uses.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Still works over Ukraine somehow… Maybe that fancy satellite network just carries it to the next available ground station?
ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 day ago
It works, only if Elon wants it to work. Did you forget he shut it off during the war, several times?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure, that’s a fault of Elon though, not a fault of satellite networks.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 day ago
We are talking about Starlink here, correct? Owned by Elon?
That said, all satellite networks are subject to dying if their ground-stations are taken offline, so if “all the fiber for a country goes down”, so does Starlink.