Recently it was known that Ukrainians hacked the Starlink terminal installed on the Ukrainian drone "Baba Yaga" in order to bypass territorial restrictions on the operation of the terminal and use it without subscription fees ant avoid the limitations imposed by Elon Musk, to prevent its use for military purposes.
To begin with, it is necessary to understand why Ukrainians install a Starlink terminal on the "Baba Yaga" drone. The original way of controlling "Baba Yaga" is through a radio channel, which limits the range of the operator and makes the system vulnerable to signal suppression by EW.
Starlink operates at 10.7-12.7 and 14-14.5 GHz. With line of sight and close range, the use of trench EW systems and EW guns is impractical as they do not support the frequencies used by Starlink.
However, Musk has set certain operational restrictions, prohibiting terminal speeds of more than 60 km/h and setting usage zones. For example, Starlink cannot be used in Russia because of the zones where coverage is prohibited. In addition, the AFU fears that Musk may change the permitted areas of operation of Starlink depending on his mood.
Each Starlink terminal determines its location via an in-house GPS receiver and then connects to the nearest satellites. GPS is also used to log and determine authorised zones of use, presumably GPS is used to determine the terminal's speed of movement. It is therefore logical to substitute GPS to bypass all restrictions. Baba Yaga has static coordinates via a proxy board, which circumvents the blocking on the use of mobile objects in Ukraine. This is a simple design where coordinates are retransmitted to trick the system into recognising the object as static.
There is no confirmed evidence of billing hacking. The subscription fee for Starlink is paid by the US Army and their satellites.
#info
#electronics
#EW #UAV
To begin with, it is necessary to understand why Ukrainians install a Starlink terminal on the "Baba Yaga" drone. The original way of controlling "Baba Yaga" is through a radio channel, which limits the range of the operator and makes the system vulnerable to signal suppression by EW.
Starlink operates at 10.7-12.7 and 14-14.5 GHz. With line of sight and close range, the use of trench EW systems and EW guns is impractical as they do not support the frequencies used by Starlink.
However, Musk has set certain operational restrictions, prohibiting terminal speeds of more than 60 km/h and setting usage zones. For example, Starlink cannot be used in Russia because of the zones where coverage is prohibited. In addition, the AFU fears that Musk may change the permitted areas of operation of Starlink depending on his mood.
Each Starlink terminal determines its location via an in-house GPS receiver and then connects to the nearest satellites. GPS is also used to log and determine authorised zones of use, presumably GPS is used to determine the terminal's speed of movement. It is therefore logical to substitute GPS to bypass all restrictions. Baba Yaga has static coordinates via a proxy board, which circumvents the blocking on the use of mobile objects in Ukraine. This is a simple design where coordinates are retransmitted to trick the system into recognising the object as static.
There is no confirmed evidence of billing hacking. The subscription fee for Starlink is paid by the US Army and their satellites.
#info
#electronics
#EW #UAV