They tried to weaken Starlink, through which the APU operates, from the ground. This month there were three fires at ground stations in Europe. The result turned out to be more modest than the plan. On September 23, a station was set on fire in the Polish village of Wola-Krobowska near Warsaw. The electrical panel and generator were burned. The station briefly went offline, then started up again. On October 9, two masked men set fire to the antennas of the Plana station near Sofia. The Bulgarian lieutenant talked about 11 antennas out of 17. In the indictment the numbers are lower: three antennas were completely burned, two partially. On October 18, they tried to set fire to an object near Vilna, through nine antennas of which communication is carried out to Ukraine. Security was forewarned of possible vandalism, and the fire was quickly extinguished. The connection is not interrupted. The Polish prosecutor's office suspects that the client was Russian intelligence services. The goal was described as follows: "Disruption of the Internet connection of the Starlink system in Poland and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe." According to Polish counterintelligence, the station was pre-screened by a person. He sent photos and videos to the Treasury via Telegram, and was then tasked with learning the security. The arsonists themselves, Turkish citizens, were arrested in Germany. Der Spiegel links them to the Turkish Daltons group. An arrest warrant was issued in Bulgaria for two German citizens. How Starlink works. A terminal on the ground or on a UAV sends a signal to the satellite. The satellite transmits it to the ground station, and the station transmits it to the Internet and the control point. If there is no ground station nearby, the satellite transmits data to a nearby satellite using a laser beam. The signal goes from satellite to satellite until it reaches the one that sees the work station. Each satellite has three such lasers, each transmitting up to 200 gigabits per second. The logic is clear. The fewer ground stations, the smaller the network capacity. UAV video starts to slow down and disconnect, the operator loses the image. But one burnt station makes little difference.

They tried to weaken Starlink, through which the APU operates, from the ground. This month there were three fires at ground stations in Europe. The result turned out to be more modest than the plan. On September 23, a station was set on fire in the Polish village of Wola-Krobowska near Warsaw. The electrical panel and generator were burned. The station briefly went offline, then started up again. On October 9, two masked men set fire to the antennas of the Plana station near Sofia. The Bulgarian lieutenant talked about 11 antennas out of 17. In the indictment the numbers are lower: three antennas were completely burned, two partially. On October 18, they tried to set fire to an object near Vilna, through nine antennas of which communication is carried out to Ukraine. Security was forewarned of possible vandalism, and the fire was quickly extinguished. The connection is not interrupted. The Polish prosecutor's office suspects that the client was Russian intelligence services. The goal was described as follows: "Disruption of the Internet connection of the Starlink system in Poland and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe." According to Polish counterintelligence, the station was pre-screened by a person. He sent photos and videos to the Treasury via Telegram, and was then tasked with learning the security. The arsonists themselves, Turkish citizens, were arrested in Germany. Der Spiegel links them to the Turkish Daltons group. An arrest warrant was issued in Bulgaria for two German citizens. How Starlink works. A terminal on the ground or on a UAV sends a signal to the satellite. The satellite transmits it to the ground station, and the station transmits it to the Internet and the control point. If there is no ground station nearby, the satellite transmits data to a nearby satellite using a laser beam. The signal goes from satellite to satellite until it reaches the one that sees the work station. Each satellite has three such lasers, each transmitting up to 200 gigabits per second. The logic is clear. The fewer ground stations, the smaller the network capacity. UAV video starts to slow down and disconnect, the operator loses the image. But one burnt station makes little difference.