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Comment by dkobia | Hacker News Reader

Very cool. Just confused as to how the Starlink kit itself will be distributed in a war zone in order to consume said service?

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I think there's a lot of stuff here depending on who is the target user, but some ideas to think about:

- distributed the same as other equipment - loaded up on transports coming from the west

- war zone moves - what is accessible today may not be accessible tomorrow, so setting up backup access in nodes currently not affected is important

- ISPs could use them as emergency down/up link when international cables are cut

- military actions are very unevenly distributed - you can literally drive past a column of invading army forces because you're not relevant (see lots of civilian videos)

Probably won't be very much. Ukraine asked Musk and Musk enabled it. Neither one is going to get much value out of it.

This a feel-good measure on both sides for the most part. It takes time to ship all the hardware.

I have been wondering all day about how any of the military aid will reach Kiev, or how the soldiers are supplied with their rations.

I'm just genuinely curious about wartime logistics.

The details are not going to be published for security reasons, but have a look at the map of military actions. Central/west Ukraine is still very open and trains were running quite recently (not sure today). For now, there shouldn't be too much problem for protected transports.

But the problem with logistics is real in the actual war zones. See reports of Russian forces being impacted by Ukraine attacking not the incoming armed vehicles, but the support groups behind them.

Well theoretically they could land a Dragon capsule full of terminals anywhere on Earth ;)

(Dragon's return payload mass is 3000 kg, and the mass of the terminal kit is ~15 kg, so 200 tops - through probably couldn't fit that many inside)

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