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Billionaire says satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine, as Russian attacks disrupt the internet.

Billionaire says satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine, as Russian attacks disrupt the internet. Billionaire says satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine, as Russian attacks disrupt the internet. SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk says the company’s Starlink satellite broadband service is available in Ukraine and SpaceX is sending more terminals to the country, whose internet has been disrupted due to the Russian invasion.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his Starlink satellite internet service is available in Ukraine and more terminals to use it are on the way.

SpaceX's Starlink service offers high-speed broadband access via a massive constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit and is designed to ultimately provide coverage anywhere on Earth, with a focus on remote areas or underserved regions. The company's most recent launch occurred on Friday (Feb. 25), when SpaceX lofted 50 new Starlink satellites into orbit from a pad at California's Vandenberg Space Force Base. We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand,” Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who is also the country's minister of digital transformation, asked Musk on Twitter Saturday.

Ukraine's usual internet service has been disrupted by Russia's attack. Elon Musk responded to a plea, saying Starlink satellites were now available.

He recently moved the corporate headquarters for his electric automaker Tesla to Austin, and production started in December at the company's $1.1 billion Central Texas manufacturing facility. Musk has increasingly made the Austin area a center of operations. The company also has production facilities near Waco and will soon expand to add a rocket engine manufacturing facility.

Long before the tanks started rolling into Ukraine, Russia had been trying to disrupt Ukraine's internet.

Even before the declaration of war, Russia has been targeting Ukraine with cyber attacks. More recently, Russia has been trying to disrupt Ukraine's internet. This makes it impossible for Russia to disable the Ukrainian internet access fully without cyber attacking foreign data centers."