{"id":140503,"date":"2022-06-12T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/us-general-credits-musks-starlink-with-destroying-vladimir-putins-information-campaign"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:42:18","slug":"us-general-credits-musks-starlink-with-destroying-vladimir-putins-information-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/us-general-credits-musks-starlink-with-destroying-vladimir-putins-information-campaign","title":{"rendered":"US General credits Musk\u2019s Starlink with \u2018Destroying Vladimir Putin\u2019s information campaign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-general-credits-musks-starlink-with-destroying-vladimir-putins-information-campaign2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk and his Starlink Internet service, according to a US general, are responsible for keeping Ukrainian communication links up despite Russian attempts to shut them down. In a June 8 Politico piece, Brig. Gen. Steve Butow, head of the space portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit, the Pentagon\u2019s Silicon Valley tech outpost, said: \u201cThe strategic consequence is that it completely devastated [Russian President Vladimir] Putin\u2019s media campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has never been able to quiet (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy to this day.\u201d Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, and his SpaceX firm are working on a satellite network and Earthbound receivers that will beam the Internet throughout the world, reaching locations that previously couldn\u2019t access high-speed internet. The messages going between Earth\u2019s receivers and a \u201cconstellation\u201d of satellites flying approximately 342 miles above the surface, according to the business, are quicker than fiber-optic networks and can reach more distant parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Musk sent the equipment to Ukraine in March after authorities there requested them after Russia\u2019s incursion on February 24, according to the Washington Post. \u201cWhile you try to colonize Mars \u2014 Russia try to occupy Ukraine! Russian missiles strike Ukrainian civilians while your rockets successfully land from space \u201d Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine\u2019s Vice Prime Minister, sent Musk a tweet on February 26. \u201d We request that you deliver Starlink stations to Ukraine and address sane Russians to stand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and his Starlink Internet service, according to a US general, are responsible for keeping Ukrainian communication links up despite Russian attempts to shut them down. In a June 8 Politico piece, Brig. Gen. Steve Butow, head of the space portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit, the Pentagon\u2019s Silicon Valley tech outpost, said: \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,418,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140503","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}