>Finnish surveillance satellite giant ICEYE to work with Ukraine to develop an European alternative to starlinkhttps://www.hs.fi/maailma/art-2000012361071.html>Satellite company Iceye and Nokia have signed a memorandum of intent with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.>Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to remove usage restrictions on his satellite service, Starlink, in Ukraine.>The Iceye agreement was announced in connection with Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s visit to Ukraine.In the future the ever present glaring eyes of ICEYE Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites will not only keep tabs on Russians through the cloud cover, creating profiles of individuals with the help of AI, but these same satellites will also provide jamming proof communications for precision weapons when the order is given for liquidation.No longer will strike missions be limited by american fickleness and lack of will.
Weapons?
>>65604022Starlink/Starshield works because SpaceX has more lift capacity than the rest of the world combined. Unless Musk gives them a ride, they are basically limited to what Ariane Space can provide, which is a small fraction of SpaceX at a sever multiple of the SpaceX price. SpaceX is $2700/kilogram to the Starlink orbit, while Ariane Space is $6000/kilogram, and SpaceX had 170 launches in 2025, compared to 7 for Ariane Space/ESA combined.Lots needs to be done by other space players if anyone wants to compete with Elon for comsat stuff.
>>65604022>anti-UK seethe threadSo what blew up in Russia? Seems the /pol/ nonwhites are in a chimpout again….
>>65604107Are you fucking retarded?
>>65604124No. Are you a fucking shill or glownigger?
>>65604119Ok Ivan, you demoralized me. Russia/musk are stronk and none compare.
>>65604022It may just be clickbait but I saw a very similar article headline the other day but a Canadian company.It just makes sense to do so, if elongated muskrat wants to deliberately shoot his monopoly in the foot you'd be stupid not to try to push your own company to fill the gap regardless of how strongly you feel about Ukraine.>>65604119*More lift capacity than the rest of the world... For now. They definitely have the lead and a good head start, but there's a lot of money being thrown at other companies to try and catch up, and if Elon wants to deliberately alienate customers I would encourage him to check on how Bioware is doing for an example of the long term consequences of doing that.
>>65604143you don't need to look at Bioware, just look at all the fuckery that has happened with starlink/starshield or the sanctions being placed on the international criminal court and all the US companies complying with them it exposes that US service providers can't be trusted to be neutral or to value European costumers enough to offer any sort of resistance to a hostile US executive.before building native alternatives to US services wasn't deemed necessary and since it's not economical wasn't pursued. now that it is clearly necessary the purses are being opened to build out native equivalents for US services and that means that there will be competitors to those US service providers were there weren't any before
>>65604133this is a zigger falseflagging btw, the post he's replying to is entirely right, europe will need a launch vehicle with reusable first stage at the very least if they want to build their own starlink style megaconstellation.
>>65604189I figured it was just another European angry about American superiority in tech and aerospace.
>>65604022Starlink has 10k satellites in space.No other competitor is even remotely close to the performance of Starlink.Ukrainians need to just give up.
>>65604210Year 4 of the 2 day special military operation…>>65604194It’s hardly a “superiority” when the yanks shit themselves at the first sign they may have to fight p*ccia
>>65604210You could have an ISP with 10% of Starlinks speed and it would still be preferable simply because you don't have to worry about a pathetic manchild who is literally so cringe he wasn't even invited to pedo island deciding to turn it off because someone hurt his fee fees and/or tsar monke threatened to release whatever blackmail he has on him if he doesn't be a good little goy and play ball.
>>65604226>falseflagging zigger replies to his own “Ukraine should give up” postYou are laying it on too thick
the solution is simple, launch as many cheap high-altitude balloon sensors as possible.flood hundreds of balloons all over Ukraine and float them over Russia as well.
>>65604131Sensors are the most important weapon.
>>65604233And use them to drop pee bottles on the Russians
>>65604022>"Finnish surveillance satellite giant">Number of satellites launched by Finland: 0If your spy tech has to be sent through multiple countries to then be secured and launched by yet another country, it's compromised.
