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gsvnvariable t1_iv281yx wrote

1300 ?!?! Holy fuckballs

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paul_wi11iams t1_iv2pnmp wrote

> 1300 ?!?!

among 40 000 terminals in Ukraine. That's a temporary outage for one terminal in thirty.

The outage was caused by a problem between SpaceX and a British company, and its not even certain that SpaceX knew the terminals were intended for Ukraine.

Regarding the battlefront areas, the big deal is only providing service on territory currently held by Ukraine and taking account of military advances.

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noncongruent t1_iv2qqnk wrote

Yep, the terminals are geofenced so that if Russians get ahold of one and torture passwords out of a Ukrainian they still won't work in Russian-held territory. This means they won't work in Crimea at all, and when battle lines are shifting rapidly on active fronts there's a delay from when Ukraine can tell SpaceX they've regained control of territory and when SpaceX can propagate the new geofence info to terminals. This is likely only a problem where Ukraine is making rapid progress, which isn't along the entire battlefront.

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