当地时间10月8日,据英国《金融时报》报道称,“星链”通信系统中断导致乌克兰军队在与俄罗斯军队作战时遭遇了“灾难性”的失联。
乌克兰军队抱怨“星链”常中断
报道称,这一消息引发了担忧,即埃隆·马斯克可能对乌克兰军队采取了某些措施,以回应乌克兰公开谴责他提出的和平计划一事,但这位太空探索技术公司的巨头称《金融时报》的这篇文章是“糟糕的报道”。
马斯克早在3月份就给了乌克兰数千个“星链”终端,以帮助基辅军方“操作无人机,在没有网络的地区获得至关重要的情报更新并相互联络”。
Thousands of Starlink terminals, which are made by Elon Musk-owned SpaceX, were donated by the company, purchased by the US government or crowdfunded by donors to help Ukrainian troops operate drones, receive vital intelligence updates and communicate with each other in areas where there are no other secure networks.