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.
It is poetic you removed my post of this because the x-37b was deemed non sequitur
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 mission also builds on momentum from OTV-7. During that mission, the X-37B completed a first-of-its-kind aerobraking maneuver to change orbits while conserving propellant. That demonstration mattered because it showed how the platform can operate more flexibly in space, giving mission planners freedom of maneuver without sacrificing precious fuel.
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!
