"The enemy at the front doesn't have a problem, the enemy has a catastrophe," Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov said.

A new “white list” from SpaceX is shutting off Russia’s illicit access to Starlink’s satellite internet across the front line.

At shortly before 3:00 a.m. Kyiv time on Feb. 5, Elon Musk retweeted a new guide from Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Ministry for registering a Starlink terminal within UkraSubsequently, a series of alarmed Russian social media posts indicate that Starlink terminals were disconnecting en masse along the front.

Three Ukrainian commanders, speaking to the Kyiv Independent on the condition of anonymity, reported intercepting messages from Russian forces complaining about Starlink terminals failing in large numbers.

Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov, a longtime commentator on electronic warfare more recently appointed as advisor to Defense Minister Mykhaylo Fedorov, said the “enemy at the front doesn’t have a problem, the enemy has a catastrophe.”

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    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Before SpaceX, back when Musk had his X.com/PayPal money, he tried to buy an ICBM from Russia with the purpose of modifying it to launch a mission to Mars*.

      The last meeting they had about it, Russia basically laughed him out of the room after they’d already tried to fleece him. So he founded SpaceX to get there instead.

      • Mars mission was really just to move some plants and bacteria to Mars - within the space community, there are some that want to limit/prevent exploration of extraterrestrial bodies for sake of contamination, that our bacterial load might change the course of natural evolution on a planet. Musk wanted to ‘pollute’ Mars in order to make that argument no long viable.

      Early SpaceX is pretty wild.