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Russia is already using its new Rassvet satellite network — billed as a homegrown version of Starlink — for military communications over Ukraine, aiming to make its strike drones more accurate and harder to jam, Ukrainian military intelligence told Reuters. Russia has launched 32 Rassvet satellites into orbit so far this year in two batches in March and July, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense (GUR). The Russian government said last month that Russia had launched more than 30 satellites. That is a tiny fraction of the more than 10,000 satellites in the Starlink network,…
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