Starlink ground station near Warsaw hit by fire, Poland suspects sabotage
THE SO WHAT
A suspected sabotage fire at a Starlink ground station carrying traffic to Ukraine shows commercial satellite networks are now contested infrastructure. If your operations depend on LEO connectivity, you need redundancy plans that assume physical attacks on ground assets, not just orbital or cyber risk.
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