Germany blocks full Chinese takeover of satellite startup
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Germany has blocked a complete Chinese takeover of a satellite startup on national security grounds, sources close to the matter told AFP Thursday, as Berlin takes an increasingly hard line against Beijing.

The German tech company KLEO Connect aims to establish its own network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, hoping to rival Starlink.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•1 year ago

    So, you see, these projects are primarily for warfare. Civilian applications are often permitted but that’s not the point of those projects.

      • federalreverse-oldEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Wait what? Shouldn’t that enable the US to end this war relatively easily? They could instantly break a lot of the advanced weaponry of Russians by disabling GPS for them.

        • @[email protected]English
          12•1 year ago

          You can’t disable GPS for individual devices, what they can do is disable the civilian signals and only send out the military ones which are both scrambled and way more accurate. GPS is one-way communication, from satellites to ground devices, no backlink.

          And I bet they absolutely would, but Ukraine is also using civilian devices and asked the US not to.

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺English
          5•1 year ago

          No they couldn’t. GPS works by sending the time stamps and position of the satellite. By measuering the difference between when the signals reach the gps device it can triangulate its position.

          There is the civillian coarse and an encrypted fine version for the military. I think the US will not allow the Ukrainians access to the second and their tech is probably not suitable for it.

          If they cut GPS it cuts for everyone in that area.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        That’s just a consequence of classic Russian corruption. That’s not the system working as designed 😄