If you haven’t been in hibernation, you probably know that there is a bit of a situation going on in Ukraine right now. At times like this, they need all the help they can get. Enter Elon Musk.
Ukrainian vice prime minister as well as minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, tweeted Elon Musk for Starlink stations in Ukraine on Saturday, 26 February. Because everyone knows by now that Twitter is the best way to contact Musk.
Starlink engaged
In response, Musk cooly tweeted that the SpaceX Starlink satellite service has been activated in Ukraine and said terminals were on the way. Finger guns.
In a tweet on Monday, Fedorov posted a photo that shows a truck full of Starlink terminals, saying they are in Ukraine and thanking Musk.
“You are most welcome,” the SpaceX CEO responded.
The terminals, which look similar to satellite dishes, connect to Starlink satellites to obtain high-speed internet. Without, you know, all the wires and installations and things.
Musk’s company has also helped Tonga with Starlink in the past, following a volcanic eruption damaging an undersea internet cable. A SpaceX team is also helping to fix the internet cable. What a great team.
To give you an estimate, a standard Starlink kit costs about R8,000. The Ukrainian delivery vehicle appears to contain a… buttload of the units. A buttload, of course, is a technically correct unit of measurement that works out to about 1.2 tons. Assuming a single buttload, there are about 120 units in the back of the truck. So about R1 million worth of Starlink hardware, then. Not a bad week’s work for Elon and friends.
Source: Business Insider