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If it weren’t for the harsh and violent reality, one could think of a scene from “Don’t Look Up“, the film in which an astronomer played by Leonardo DiCaprio, together with his team, discovers that a comet will destroy planet Earth.

While Ukraine’s President Zelensky, a former comedian and now at the helm of a country at war, coordinates the defense of his land from the Russian offensive, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has launched an appeal, even a provocative one, to Elon Musk: “While you’re trying to colonize Mars, Russia is trying to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets are successfully landing from space, Russian rockets are attacking the Ukrainian civilian people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and direct sane Russians to stand up.”.

As is now sadly known, some Ukrainian cities have been left without electricity and consequently without internet connection. Thanks to this system, communications will not be interrupted. In this time of conflict, therefore, this is a tool that is more necessary than ever.
So it was President Zelensky himself who felt the need to thank Elon Musk via video link: “If you have time, after the war you are welcome in Ukraine”. “I spoke with Elon Musk ,” Zelensky wrote on social media.“I thanked him for his support, in words and deeds. Next week, we will receive another batch of Starlink terminals for destroyed cities. We also talked about possible space projects and a visit to Ukraine. But we’ll come back to that after the war.”.

Elon Musk’s is a very ambitious project, structured by imagining a total cost of $10 billion, for 2025 SpaceX expects 40 million subscribers and a turnover of $30 billion.
Microsoft Azure
and
Google
, which rely on
Starlink
satellites to deliver cloud computing to businesses, are exceptional partners. But there is a guest of stone: Mr. Jeff Bezos. The founder of
Amazon
and
Blue Origin
has also launched the Kuiper project, with the aim of setting up another large Internet constellation of more than 3,000 satellites.

But there is a but. The Seattle giant is more cautious in the progress of the project. Jeff Bezos and other digital business moguls have detected a significant problem: Starlink could preclude other operators from building their own infrastructure due to possible interference between radio signals. The
Federal Communication Commission
has already been warned, we’ll see what happens. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian people in the trenches can count on a reliable internet connection.