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Can India Really Regulate Starlink? The Lessons from Ukraine
The Russia–Ukraine war has starkly exposed the strategic vulnerabilities that emerge when modern nations rely on private, foreign-controlled satellite constellations for critical national security and military communications. While commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) networks like Starlink proved indispensable in keeping Ukrainian defense forces and civilian infrastructure connected following the systematic destruction of legacy terrestrial communications, the…
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Starlink, OneWeb or Jio? Are we asking the right questions?
The debate over satellite internet in India should not be just about Elon Musk, Mukesh Ambani, spectrum auctions, or national security. It should be about building an Indian satellite communications industry. As a firmware engineer working on satellite hardware and digital processing architectures with one of the leading aerospace companies, I look at these networks…
