SpaceX will expand Ukraine's access to the Starshield satellite network – news 1+1 – Ukraine

Starshield's encrypted signal is difficult to crack or jam.

SpaceX signed an agreement with the Pentagon to expand Ukraine's access to a more secure, militarized version of its satellite network Starlink – Starshield.

This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the Office of Commercial Satellites of the US Space Systems Command.

The contract provides that 2.5 thousand of Starlink terminals already in Ukraine will have access to Starshield – a classified and encrypted signal through Starlink, which is more difficult to hack or jam. This is in addition to the 500 terminals that were previously connected to Starshield, the post said.

“A total of 3,000 terminals are serviced under these two contracts,” the Commercial Satellite Office of the Space Systems Command said. It added that the contracts have a common goal – “to facilitate connection to…