Last week Ukraine’s military satellite terminals stopped working on anything moving faster than 100 miles an hour, but the outage wasn’t Starlink. Alex from Speedify explains why it was actually Starshield, the separate SpaceX constellation built for the US military, and why that distinction decides who controls the switch. He also gets into the part almost nobody noticed: ordinary Starlink has had speed limits on its dishes all along, enforced through the GPS and inertial measurement unit inside every terminal, and tied to which plan you pay for. Plus why a Starlink dish depends on knowing exactly where it is, what researchers found when they tried to jam one, and how cellular networks handle speed differently.
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