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Marcus Daniels
marcus at snoutfarm.com
Fri Mar 11 09:34:46 EST 2022
The killer app for Starlink: Military communications?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/10/commercial-satellites-ukraine-russia-intelligence/
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this week, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) noted that “Russia has been trying to jam the signals and block coverage” of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system over Ukraine and asked Gen. James Dickinson, the commander of U.S. Space Command, what the “legal framework” is “when “private actors become involved in contested situations.” Dickinson didn’t answer directly, though he noted that Starlink’s operations had demonstrated “what a megaconstellation or a proliferated architecture can provide in terms of redundancy and capability.”
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