Buy for $ 1500: The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation already use new Starlink Mini on the front (photo)

According to SpaceX, the Starlink Mini antenna is about twice as smaller and three times lighter than the standard Starlink antenna. Some military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are already using new satellite terminals of Starlink Mini from SpaceX at the front. This was written by a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a specialist in radio technologies Sergey Beskrestnov (Sergey Flesh) in his Telegram channel on July 15.

The Ukrainian military has published screenshots, from which it follows that the occupiers buy new satellite terminals at a price of 130 thousand Russian rubles (about $ 1,500) together with the battery. Sergey Beskrestnov also noted until he personally met Starlink Mini at the front. "Starlink Mini is already on the Russian fronts. I haven't even seen it," - wrote a specialist in radio technologies. SpaceX owner Ilon Musk announced a new Starlink Mini on his page on the social network X. X.

The businessman said that he had already installed the terminal and used it to write this message. "It took less than 5 minutes. It is easily transferred to the backpack. This product will change the world," Ilon Musk wrote. Later, on June 20, CNBC reported with reference to SpaceX that the Starlink Mini antenna is approximately a laptop. It is about twice as smaller and three times lighter than the standard Starlink antenna.

According to SpaceX, Starlink Mini is equipped with a built-in Wi-Fi router and "consumes less energy" than other antennas, but at the same time provides speed of loading more than 100 megabites per second. According to the publication, while SpaceX offers a "limited number" of Starlink Mini antennas $ 599 per piece. Starlink Mini service is actually costing $ 150 a month.

"Starlink Mini is a compact portable set that is easily placed in a backpack and is designed to provide a high -speed Internet with a low road delay," SpaceX says. We will remind, the representative of the Pentagon stated that SpaceX Ilona Maska actively cooperates with the US military to stop the illegal use of its terminals of Starlink Satellite Communications in Ukraine.