TECH BRIEF
If someone had asked you early last year to predict the key figures in a hypothetical war between Russia and Ukraine, you probably wouldn’t have named Elon Musk. But as we’ve seen over the past 18 months, the mogul behind Tesla, SpaceX and now Twitter, has played a surprisingly pivotal role in the war thanks to Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite broadband network.
“Starlink gives one person the ability to turn off a system that’s being used by a country that’s fighting for its self-defence.”
First deployed in 2019, the Starlink network now has more than 4,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth, and the company continues to launch a couple of dozen or so
