Ukraine leaders, while their county is under invasion from Russia, requested StarLink highspeed internet to be implemented and Elon Musk came through by answering the call. Now not only is the StarLink internet system active in Ukraine, all the hardware has been shipped to Ukraine is is operational! Why is this important? What does this have to do with off grid living? Everything!
During an invasion from another country people still have internet communications available to help them communicate with their people during a full scale invasion from a foreign power. StarLink has proven itself the off grid internet of choice when it come to a grid-down, worst-case survival scenario.
UPDATE: “Ukraine’s vice prime minister thanked the company for a shipment of Starlink antennas amid Russia’s invasion: “Starlink keeps our cities connected and emergency services saving lives!” – SpaceFlightNow.com – SpaceX preps for another Starlink launch as internet terminals arrive in Ukraine
UPDATE: More Starlink satellites on the way! “SpaceX wheeled a Falcon 9 rocket and 47 internet satellites to a launch pad Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center, ready to blast off Thursday to reinforce the Starlink constellation days after expanding the network into Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of the country. The launch, set for 9:35 a.m. EST (1435 GMT) Thursday, will take off from pad 39A at Kennedy, continuing SpaceX’s busy start to the year. It will be SpaceX’s ninth mission since Jan. 1, and the 10th launch from Florida’s Space Coast this year, coming less than two days after the liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.”
You can’t get much more “worst-case” survival situation than an invasion of your country by a foreign power, short of a nuclear war. (which we will talk about in a future article; read our article about EMP attack and whether you need to prepare for it or not)
“Musk said on Saturday that Starlink is available in Ukraine and SpaceX is sending more terminals to the country, whose internet has been disrupted due to the Russian invasion.” Reuters –Ukraine gets Starlink internet terminals – and friendly warning about safety
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov asked Musk via Twitter (during a Russian invasion) to help provide internet services to Ukraine.
Musk obliged!
Starlink Satellite internet terminals, sent by Elon Musk, arrive in Ukraine.
A Foreign Invasion of Your Country & You Still Have Internet Communications!
An invasion of your country, short of nuclear war, is probably one of the worst-case-scenarios you can possibly think of. And StarLink is there. Many parts of the country the internet and services are down and communication is key to survival in this survival scenario.
This is the kind of grid-down survival scenario that preppers and survivalists all over the world prepare for on a daily basis. WAR! An invasion by a foreign power. And literally now Ukraine has internet communications. You can’t get better service than that.
If StarLink works for this scenario it will work in just about any survival scenario short of all out nuclear war, and if that happens you’ll have bigger things to worry about.
StarLink provides off grid internet that works
Not only is the Starlink system working, it’s working during a major Russian invasion of another independent nation. The Starlink system is reported to have a download speed of around 200MBs, which is phenomenal in good times, and even more so considering the circumstances in Ukraine currently.
Even the Vice Prime Minister of the country is thanking Musk and SpaceX saying that Starlink is ‘saving lives’!
I don’t think we could ask for anything better than that.
More to come as the story unfolds…
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UPDATE: Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet in Ukraine hits over 200 Mbps during tests
