While neither the regime nor SpaceX likes to reveal their cards, hackers and journalists are not deterred by this, and the laws of physics apply to everyone.
Iran is the most sanctioned country in the world yet 50,000 Starlink terminals somehow made their way in.
it turns out the not CIA run “National Endowment for Democracy” paid for them
Net positive, fuck Starlink and fuck Musk. Time to learn from the persians and block your neighbouring Starlink hardware.
Some peoples only access to reliable Internet is starlink.
I don’t like musk at all, but until there’s a reliable alternative, it may be the only thing people have access to.
It’s Musk, it’s shit. People organized revolutions since the dawn of time without internet, they can do it again. In fact, no internet reduces the chance of foreign interference and the people can fee themselves without putting another British/US puppet in power there.
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Good article. Very interesting.
TL;DR: Starlink recievers use methods to make it so they don’t have to be directly positioned at satellites; this in turn leaves them vulnerable to “side lobe jamming” and GPS spoofing. The suggestion is to point them directly and cover them i.e. in a pit or in a cavity of some such so that the jamming / spoofing doesn’t reach it.
Thanks for actually discussing the article instead of feeding the trolls
It sounds like the downside here would be that you loose reliability in your connection. Probably fine for most things.
Seems like they’ve already lost the reliability anyway due to the jamming
Yeah, you lose reliability. If you put the antenna in a pit it will be limited in its beamforming capability. This restricts the number of visible satellites, leading to situations where no satellites are visible.
Why the fuck amrikkkans meddle their nose in literally everything? Just leave the world alone you genocidal cunts
Article by a German outlet about violent repression in Tehran, and you crawl out to squeal about the US?
The only violent “repression” was in response to the CIA engineered insurrection which has been used as neocon propaganda to set the stage for Air strikes and regime change for Netanyahu’s benefit.
It would be really interesting to see what the world would actually look like if the CIA was anywhere near as competent as tankies think it is, instead of one of the most inept and ineffective agencies in the history of intelligence gathering and espionage.
Here’s what the world would look like. https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/when-us-regime-change
They’re useless at espionage but great at arming death squads and overthrowing governments.
I’ll give you some credit and assume you’re a Hasabra bot rather than a mouth breather with no object permanence who can’t spend 30 seconds on Google.
I am talking about starlink
Truly unhinged behavior
Yeah its regime regime regime. what about the vile American regime that bombs and threatens countries and facilitates genocide.
Even the Canadian Prime Minister called out Amerikkas bullshit at Davos.
canada was fully along them until they moved gunpoints towards them.
True but its still shocking for a Western leader to.come out and say the whole system is a fiction.
I’ve been so used to doublethink from politicians.
What is going to happen when countries decide that they don’t want starlink satellites over thei air space and start to blow them up?
It would be hard to do? How much would that affect the general use of starlink for users on other parts of the world?
Given that space isn’t owned by any one country, and Starlink is a US company, whose services are used by the US government, there’s a very good chance there would be military retaliation.
It would be hard to do? How much would that affect the general use of starlink for users on other parts of the world?
Only two countries have demonstrated air launched rockets that can destroy satellites on orbit, the USA and Russia. There is good speculation that China has built anti-satellites satellites, but no one is aware of any actual proven test.
Here’s the USA’s anti-satellite rocket being launched on its one and only test:
Now, lets assume that all 3 countries decide they want to attack Starlink satellites at once with all their weapons. Perhaps they destroy 30 satellites in total. As of November 2025 the Starlink network surpassed 10,000 satellites in orbit. As for replacing the lost satellites, a single launch places 25 to 28 satellites in orbit at a time. Within the next 24 hours 25 more Starlink satellites will be launched:
In 4 days, another launch is occurring that will place 24 more Starlink satellites in orbit.
So destroying a few dozen Starlink satellites might cause a slight blip in coverage for maybe a few minutes tops in specific narrow geographic locations, but only for a little while until replacements move to positions.
Destroying a few dozen satellites would probably kickstart a Kessler síndrome.
Maybe, but not guaranteed. Starlink satellites aren’t very big (meaning not very large pieces if they blow up). Additionally, Starlink satellites have active avoidance systems that can “dodge” debris to a degree (its slow, but space is big). Lastly, because the pieces would be small, they’d experience more atmospheric drag and fall back to Earth faster. Whether that means weeks instead of years, I don’t know.
It’s hard to predict the outcome in such a chaotic event but starlink alone already does 100k+ collision avoidance maneuvers each year (can’t remember the exact number but is more than one every 2 minutes). It’s highly unlikely that we would be able to accurately track the newly formed debris of dozens of satellites blowing up and adjust the orbit of (potentially) hundreds of satellites in a few minutes.
Didn’t starlink satellites in really low orbit? Maybe you don’t need as sofisticate technology as with other satellites.
That picture of the F-15 jet firing the missile was at a satellite 300 miles up. Starlink satellites are about 350 miles up.
Look up Kessler syndrome for an answer as to what may happen if starlink satellites were attacked, although I think I recall people more knowledgeable than me stating this orbit is low enough where it may not be a permanent issue. Nations only control their airspace up to the Karman line which is 100km up. Starlink satellites are well beyond that.
Very hard to do. You need to be able to launch to the same orbits as the satellites and Starlink uses thousands of satellites, almost all of which will at some point fly over those countries. So they’d need to shoot them all down.
What about lasers?
I think ESA had an idea about deorbiting space debris using lasers.
Are these lasers attached to sharks?
What people could do?
Imitate them and put that fascist-owned monstrosity down everywhere.
Ah yes. The good government of Iran, the example of democracy and equality we should all follow.
If my only way of connecting to the internet in a situation of war is giving money to that nazi fuck , i would too.
I thought the fediverse hated starlink cos its an Elon musk associated thing? But now its good cos its allowing free speech to happen by oppressed people? But fediverse also hates free speech. Their is no consistency when it comes to the lemmy hivemind.
There’s gray between black and white.
I hate the meth-nazzi-fuck, I would hate more my government if it started to imprison random people for inclusive ideology or religion or whatever.
I would use starlink if it’s a good ad working way of communicating in difficult situation.
Still would hate the meth-nazi-fuck.
I don’t think we can fight all the battles, think about owning a car (few car constructors are ethic), or food providers (bulk animal killing), flying (environment), probably 90% of my phone comes from a billionaire slave owning company, clothes? Same.
It’s almost as if different people have different opinions, despite being on the same platform.
Your mistake is thinking it’s a hive mind in the first place. People argue on here all the same as they did on Reddit. The only things the fediverse provides us are avoiding a highly commercialized forum, freedom of app choice, and controls in what instances we accept communication with. Probably some other major things, but those are my top three.
Just stop yelling into an obvious echo chamber and find communities you’re more aligned with.
- Iran is not a ‘regime’. US and the West are. You are just regurgitating primitive US propaganda.
- CIA and Mossad uses Starlink to have contact with their operators on ground. Thousands and thousands of Starlink terminals were sent to local CIA/Mossad agitators that could then report/record the ‘color-revolution’ they created, back to the western propaganda machine. BBC had direct connection to the live propaganda from before the unrest started.
- Why on Earth should ‘people do something’ about Iran defending themselves from an obvious US “regime change” operation ?? Hindering Iran in defending themselves, are just supporting US and Israel in their psychopatic behavior, and revealing that one haven’t yet discarded the Western propaganda.
By now, the US lead ‘regime-change operation’ have failed - miserably. Millions of Iranians went on to the streets and protested pro government, and against the small group of artificially agitated rioters than stood for all the violence/provocations (and filmed/sent via starlink oc).
The ugly and very unpleasant truth for us privacy oriented people, is that US are using us as internet-warriors to breach firewalls setup by attacked nations. ANY nation that does not have an internet firewall and their own social media, will get their population propagandized and be hi-jacked/politically colonized by the US Plutocracy. The ‘wevil ones’ are proclaimed as Dictators/Authoritarians in violent regimes that oppress their people, but the only thing these nations do ‘wrong’, is that they won’t surrender their nations to the US/Western overlords. A fair and humble wish, I think.
Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’, bc they have much more freedom than we do in the West, and it is us that are completely propagandized to believe that everyone else is ‘savages’ and needs our Oligarchs to come in and ‘put things in order’ - we are no better than the common shitters of the past that supported and allowed the wipeout of the wevil Indians, supported slavery and colonization throughout the West.
We still moronically believe the embarrassing US narrative of the ‘Wevil non-civilized regimes’ out there, and thus supports the US Plutocracy in constantly killing off/terrorizing millions of people and dozens of peaceful nations/people… Yay for us - the progressive west…
You morons will simp for the biggest dictatorial muderers as long as they are anti-west. Go live in Russia if you’re so gung-ho about their freedoms, and try not to get volunteered
‘he was downvoted for speaking the truth’
Ok buddy. Listen just because the West and the USA are kinda broken and doing fucked up shit right now, doesn’t automatically make “the other side” right or good.
Why liberals dont apply the “lesser of two evils” shit in this case? something they preach in literally every election lmao.
This is the biggest problem with goobers like this, they hate the US, with good reason, but don’t quite grasp that the people the US are fighting aren’t automatically the good guys.
So they end up supporting some pretty horrific regimes.
The fact that you think the US is only doing fucked up shit “right now” shows that you have no understanding of US imperialism and colonialism.
Iran government bad. US government and Jewish ISIS are way worse, and not just now.
I didn’t say they haven’t done fucked up shit forever. I’m saying jumping on the fact that they are doing messed up shit right now doesn’t make the “other side” right. No matter how bad the US is, it has no impact on the opinion of their enemies.
Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’, bc they have much more freedom than we do in the West
JFC you’re an idiot
They are free to do all the things pre-approved by their governments!
So the people killing women for partially uncovering their hair are the good guys?
The people murdering thousands of protestors are the good guys?
So the religious fundamentalists imposing doctrine at gunpoint are the good guys?
I think the people protesting for their lives and freedoms are the good guys, but that’s just me.
Hey good guy, what is the Hannibal Directive?
Nothing as good guy as machine gunning a protest. They are tankies, remember.
How is it different from all who died from lack of medical care in the US?
You are not free just because you can call your president a meanie.
liberals like performative opposition, with no real meaning or impact. Liberalism is pure rot and must be dealt with same brutality as fascism.
Chinese, Russian and Iranian people don’t need us to fight for their ‘freedom’,
Oh look, yet another Tankie who thinks the grass would be greener where the lawn describes itself as communist.
How’s that “more freedom” been going for the Uyghur? Or maybe you meant the freedom to free-fall out a window when running as a political opposition to Putin?
uyghur propaganda in big 26? cmon bro even CIA doesnt do that shit now
Or maybe you meant the freedom to free-fall out a window when running as a political opposition to Putin?
Oh, yes. My sister’s friend once went to a protest. Each time she crosses the border (has to see relatives in Russia and all that), it’s an hour long interview.
Yep. When talking to Russians who emigrated away from Russia, you will find plenty of stories just like your sister’s friend’s one.
What the tankies idolizing the country seem to not realize is that living there as a national is oppressive. Your standard of living depends on staying in the good graces of the government—good graces that can quickly be lost by appearing to go against them.
The United States government is working its way towards that at an astonishing pace, but saying Russia has more freedoms is a complete delusion.
Your standard of living depends on staying in the good graces of the government—good graces that can quickly be lost by appearing to go against them.
First of all, your standard of living heavily depends on how big a network of friends and family you have. If it’s zero, then as a guy your life won’t be very interesting, and as a gal you might run out of non-exploitative choices.
Second, about good graces and such - yeah, doing political activism you might start having problems with banking and many other things.
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lol, no.
Least insane .ml tankie
