{"id":136113,"date":"2022-02-26T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/ukraine-appeals-to-elon-musk-for-starlink-satellites-to-maintain-internet"},"modified":"2022-02-26T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T01:23:29","slug":"ukraine-appeals-to-elon-musk-for-starlink-satellites-to-maintain-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/ukraine-appeals-to-elon-musk-for-starlink-satellites-to-maintain-internet","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine appeals to Elon Musk for Starlink satellites to maintain Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ukraine-appeals-to-elon-musk-for-starlink-satellites-to-maintain-internet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vice Prime Minister Fedorov reached out to Elon Musk for Starlink internet service in a last-ditch effort to restore internet access. As Russian forces approach Kyiv, Ukraine has been suffering internet problems. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ukraine-appeals-to-elon-musk-for-starlink-satellites-to-maintain-internet3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"201\" class=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine\u2019s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation contacted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the company\u2019s Starlink satellite broadband service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile you are attempting to conquer Mars, Russia is attempting to invade Ukraine!\u201d Fedorov said on Twitter. Russian missiles hit Ukrainian civilians as your rockets successfully land in orbit! We request that you send Starlink stations to Ukraine and direct all rational Russians to take a position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SpaceX launched its second shipment of internet-bearing satellites on Friday. The satellites will deliver internet access to users all across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Prime Minister Fedorov reached out to Elon Musk for Starlink internet service in a last-ditch effort to restore internet access. As Russian forces approach Kyiv, Ukraine has been suffering internet problems. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine\u2019s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation contacted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the company\u2019s Starlink satellite broadband service. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}