Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack

Shank

It feels like it’s very, very risky territory for these activities to be “occurring” in a NATO country. I’m sure everyone else is thinking the same thing, but at what point does Article 5 get invoked?

joinHNtheysaid

The incident rate should rise drastically the more russia gets closer to loosing. https://acleddata.com/report/testing-waters-suspected-russia... I must say a web/world without them and the quatari /iranian influence operations would be pleasant.

yanis_t

For anyone interested, there’s another part of the Starlink besides the satellites and your dish - ground stations (gateways) [ ]. These are the large clusters of antennas that communicate with the satellites and connect the Starlink network to the Internet on Earth. Looks like one of these was set on fire. https://starlink.com/support/article/45d1d256-171e-0f67-4895...

ketzu

It's interesting which acts end up on HN. Recently there was an arson attack in Munich against a defense company [1]. I wonder if anyone keeps track of more and their resolution/convictions? [1] https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/lka-brandanschlag-muenchen-...

olkyts

This is happening just at the same time when Russia actively targets data centers in Kyiv 2 days in a row. https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-attacks-disrupt-intern...

varjag

Putin could be making a huge mistake here by alienating a largely benevolent Musk.

michelb

Effectively this is an attack on an American company’s infrastructure?

metalman

attacks on anything conected with elon, are only remarkable for there rarity.

1244587

Ok, so first Musk was supposed to be a Russian asset: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/technology/elon-musk-ukra... (2022) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ukraine-russia-war-st... (2023) Now he is apparently Ukraine's best friend and evil Russia attacks his Starlink! Of course there is no possibility that a) one of Elon's many enemies did it, b) it was a Ukrainian false flag or c) Russia did it and Musk has been deep state all along like Thiel.

YeahThisIsMe

It happens. Not enough, but it happens.