from Hacker News

Eutelsat offers itself as a replacement for Starlink in Ukraine

by bj-rn on 3/9/25, 8:12 AM with 6 comments

• by ggm on 3/9/25, 8:17 AM

  If it has low RTT and is battlefield easy to deploy, well and good. All antenna are giant shiny objects for RF detection, phased array antenna are no different they emit as well as receive, there is radiation outside the aim point. How well eutelsat behaves is yet to be seen.

  The real problem lies behind the packets: how good is the Intel and SIGINT feed. Hopefully HIMARS aiming can be restored to higher accuracy, and battlefield information flows restored.

  France said it can supply things five eyes have to be circumspect about.

• by lifestyleguru on 3/9/25, 11:04 AM

  The only thing Polish politicians are good at is buying with public funds German cars and real estate. Hopefully servilism towards Americans will not be rewarded anymore. Please consider our politicians in the next round of sanctions.

• by rurban on 3/9/25, 1:07 PM

  > Starlink has already lost orders due to the current discussions and the close relationship between Musk and Trump. ... Ontario, Italy, Mexico,... As a result, Musk lost around 7 billion US dollars, as the company had distributed the satellite internet in 25 countries.