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War between Ukraine and Russia. While the European satellite Internet service has been severely affected since February 24, more and more evidence points to the hypothesis of a cyber attack on modems used, including by the Ukrainian army.
In the chaos of the beginning of the invasion, the flood of information about the sounds of explosions and the movement of troops, the incident at first went almost unnoticed. On February 24, at 5:55 a.m. (Moscow time), Vladimir Putin announced that he had “decided on a military operation” in Ukraine; a few minutes later, the main cities of the country, including the capital Kyiv (Kyiv), came under rocket fire. However, about an hour after the speech of the President of Russia, a strange failure began to occur in the Ka-Sat satellite network.
Located at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers above the Earth, at 9° East longitude, Ka-Sat is primarily intended to provide high-speed Internet. It was launched into orbit in December 2010, has been operating since mid-2011, and covers 55 countries, the vast majority of which are on the European continent. It was run by the French company Eutelsat for a decade before it was taken over by a takeover last year of the American company ViaSat, based in San Diego County, California. Ka-Sat bandwidth is used by many operators: from the German skyDSL to the Turkish Eser Telekom via the British Bigblu, ES…