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Pentagon announces shutdown of hundreds of illegal Russian Starlinks (ukranews.com)
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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

right after a sattelite broke into space debris and the ISS crew had to go into their ships for safety? a lot going on up there

Slashdot: ISS Astronauts Take Shelter In Boeing Starliner After Satellite Breakup

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, this story is about disconnecting Starlink ground terminals that are being used by the Russian military inside of Ukraine.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This will upset patriot musk won’t it?

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

SpaceX has to do the disabling, so they are on board. I like to imagine that this was one of the conditions for the multi-billion dollar purchase of Starshield, along with exclusive use and SpaceX not being allowed to disable it anywhere for any reason.