SpaceX Prioritizes Cybersecurity to Counteract Starlink Jamming Written 7 March 2022
View of the 60 Starlink satellites from the 24 May 2019 launch. | Credit: Official SpaceX Photos, CC0/Wikimedia Commons
Space News reported that, citing Starlink jamming “near conflict areas,” Elon Musk said that SpaceX will be “reprioritzed to cyber defence & overcoming signal jamming” at the expense of “slight delays” in Starship and Starlink V2. Musk said that the company was shifting its resources in response to jamming of terminals, presumably in Ukraine. A recent update to Starlink software “bypasses the jamming,” he added. Musk also claimed that Starlink “is the only non-Russian communications system still working in some parts of Ukraine, so the probability of being targeted is high. Please use with caution.” That shift in resources does not appear to affect other SpaceX initiatives, including launching additional current-generation Starlink satellites.
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