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Downloads of Elon Musk’s Starlink app in Ukraine have skyrocketed amid Russia’s ongoing brutal invasion.
Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, sent Starlink satellite technology to Ukraine in response to public inquiry from Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov, who is concerned about internet outages during the Russian invasion.
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The service is already up and running and is the only non-Russian communications system still operating in parts of Ukraine, Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, helped bring Internet technology to Ukraine during the war with Russia. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo/File Photo (REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo/Reuters Photos)
Starlink is designed to deliver high-speed broadband internet to places where access is unreliable or unavailable.
Starlink was the most downloaded free app on Sunday, with about 21,000 downloads that day, analytics firm Sensor Tower told Business Insider. The company added that most of the downloads came from Ukraine, based on data from the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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The insider reported that the Starlink app was installed around 76,000 times in Ukraine, up 280% from the previous two-week period, according to Sensor Tower. Two weeks ago, the first batch of Starlink terminals arrived.
In this photo illustration, the Starlink logo of the satellite internet constellation created by SpaceX is visible on a smartphone and computer screen (Photo by Pavel Gonchar / SOPA Images / Sipa USA). (Photo by Pavel Gonchar / SOPA Images / Sipa USA / Reuters Photos)
This service has been so critical in Ukraine that Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Florida Republican, is making a personal appeal to Musk to bring satellite internet technology to Cuba, as he did in Ukraine.
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“I thank Mr. Elon Musk and would like him to do the same for Cuba,” Salazar said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. “We tried to reach out to him and his technology because it basically sends a message to these people: You are not alone.”
In addition to providing the internet to Ukraine, Musk also offered to help by challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin to single combat and betting on Ukraine in a bizarre tweet to his 78 million Twitter followers on Monday.