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• @hkanji @hkanji on x

  From artillery strikes to Zoom calls, the tech billionaire's internet service has become a lifeline in the fight against Russia https://www.politico.com/...

• @maxboot Max Boot on x

  There's another man to thank: Joe Biden. The US government is paying for those Starlink terminals. https://twitter.com/...

• @hughhewitt Hugh Hewitt on x

  Extraordinary and under-reported story with far more real world significance than Elon Musk's bid for Twitter. Line up the “friend of freedom” awards. He gets them all. https://interestingengineering.com/ ...

• @shashj Shashank Joshi on x

  “Every time Oleksiy and his fellow artillerymen hit a Russian target, they have one person to thank: Elon Musk, the world's richest man...Oleksiy — who declined to give his last name for security reasons — is now a power-user of Starlink” https://www.politico.eu/...

• @bryandbender Bryan Bender on x

  Kudos to my colleagues @markscott82 and @ChristopherJM for steering this deeper report at how @elonmusk and @SpaceX have rewired the battle to defend Ukraine. From the front: https://www.politico.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  As Benedict Evans once said, Elon Musk is a bullshitter that delivers. This story of how SpaceX's Starlink has changed the course of the Ukrainian War by becoming a communication lifeline for both civilians & military is a contrast to his Twitter persona. https://www.politico.eu/…

• @jhall Jim Hall on x

  “I want to say one thing: Elon Musk's Starlink is what changed the war in #Ukraine's favor. #Russia went out of its way to blow up all our comms. Now they can't. Starlink works under Katyusha fire, under artillery fire,” the soldier said

• @trengriffin Tren Griffin on x

  1/ The Starlink LEO satellites don't need to be “positioned.” They are always moving in relation to Earth. To cover one place is to cover every other place. “SpaceX quickly positioned roughly 50 satellites ready to be used in the Eastern European country."https://www.politico.eu/…

• @jimpethokoukis James Pethokoukis on x

  “Western militaries ... have been impressed by the company's ability, within days, to deliver thousands of backpack-sized satellite stations to the war-torn country and to keep them online despite increasingly sophisticated attacks from Russian hackers.” https://www.politico.eu/.…

• @trengriffin Tren Griffin on x

  2/ The Starlink orbits are 53 degrees inclined so there are polar regions without coverage until the polar orbits are in service. These pictures showing satellites as dots are never depicted to scale. The satellites aren't actually that big relative to Earth. https://twitter.com/…

• @patrickmcgee_ Patrick McGee on x

  Fascinating! “The strategic impact is, it totally destroyed Putin's information campaign,” said Brig. Gen. Steve Butow, director at the Pentagon's Silicon Valley tech outpost. “He never, to this day, has been able to silence Zelenskyy.” https://www.politico.eu/...

• @christopherjm Christopher Miller on x

  🇺🇦 Starlink Ukraine news below from Ukrainian Vice PM and Minister of Digital Transformation Fedorov. And here's our @politico story published today about how Elon Musk's satellite internet service has become a lifeline in the fight against Russia. https://www.politico.com/... ht…

• @peterrhague Peter Hague PhD on x

  Recall that just before the invasion there were armchair experts confidently telling their followers that Starlink was a dud. https://twitter.com/...

• @christopherjm Christopher Miller on x

  Calling in coordinates for artillery strikes. Keeping comms with troops in Azovstal. Beaming Zelensky to the world. @BryanDBender, @markscott82 & I wrote about how @elonmusk's Starlink has become a lifeline for Ukraine and changed the war on the ground. https://www.politico.eu/..…

• @mattia_n Mattia Nelles on x

  Great piece on the importance of Starlink for #Ukraine. The satellite network is used both for 🇺🇦 military and civilians and it has thwarted Russia's efforts to cut the country off from the outside world. https://www.politico.eu/...

• @marklittlenews Mark Little on x

  “The strategic impact is, it totally destroyed Putin's information campaign. He never, to this day, has been able to silence Zelensky.” https://www.politico.eu/...

• @martenmickos @martenmickos on x

  Every time Oleksiy and his fellow artillerymen hit a Russian target, they have Starlink to thank https://www.politico.eu/...

• @maxboot Max Boot on x

  Correction: @USAID is paying for 1330 terminals but 3670 are donated by SpaceX along with the Internet service itself. This a genuinely good deed from @elonmusk. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...