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cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/5842754

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Germany is financing Ukraine's access to a satellite internet network operated by French company Eutelsat, Reuters reported on April 4, citing Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke.

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[โ€“] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sadly, part of the reality right now is, that there is no perfect swap-in replacement for what Starlink is being used for, that doesn't have some caveats. There probably are some problems in just physical availability of terminals and accompanying logistics - although I'd love a better estimate than "relatively fast" as well.

[โ€“] Libb@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sadly, part of the reality right now is, that there is no perfect swap-in replacement for what Starlink is being used for,

100% agree on that but, like you said, I wanted to see a more... encouraging way of saying it. This sounds a bit too much like an already failed effort. Yesterday morning, I was reading the latest US demands on Ukraine (imho, we should all closely read them in order to understand what the USA has now turned into and what kind of treatment we can expect from them in the (near) future) and I think we really should not let Ukraine down at the time they have to face Putin's Russia and now also have to face the new bully on the block, Trump's USAโ€”which won't be kind with them the moment they realize they may not get all what they asked from Ukraine (and hopefully they won't get it). Like, not kind at all.

For just military use, you probably dont need super high bandwidth so i dont think that will be an issue. This also wont be used for remotely controlling robotics or drones, so latency going up 1-200ms is not the end of the world. The real important bit is that the troops can communicate and coordinate, get warnings in time, get satellite images, etc.

The coverage is as you say going to be the thing that will take time to scale up, but that can only be sped up so much.