A Russian satellite network built to rival Starlink has quietly reached a threshold Ukrainian defense officials have been dreading, providing at least two reliable windows of connectivity over Ukrainian territory every single day, each lasting more than an hour, Militarnyi reported, citing satellite communications expert Volodymyr Stepanets.
You, supersquirrel, are one of the most active posters in this forum. Why did your post get canceled, and by whom? By the op of this post?
no biggie i was being cryptic and confusing, but ultimately I consider the X-37b as highly central to the strategic interplay of power in space, I don’t say that as a fanboy of the spacecraft it just literally represents a quite established thoroughly capable and unpredictable unkown hanging up there above russia’s knockoff Starlink… it is indicative of a class of vehicles that need to be taken into account when Starlink-like systems are integrated into threat assessments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
https://www.boeing.com/features/2026/04/x-37b-keeps-pushing-the-edge-of-on-orbit-testing
The post got removed because I came off as flippant and random and I didn’t want to remove the reference.
so… no actual issue here, just a difference in the details, whatever I am glad the article got posted it is relevant and timely!