Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest.
They were met with gunfire, and the shooters escaped, leaving behind an increasingly familiar find for authorities: Starlink internet units., has almost 4,000 low-orbit satellites across the skies, connecting people in remote corners of the Amazon and providing a crucial advantage to Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.
Illegal miners have long used satellite internet to communicate and coordinate, but until now that entailed sending a technician, usually by plane, to install a heavy, fixed antenna that cannot be carried off when mining sites move or are raided.Elon Musk’s Starlink provides high-speed connection in remote places in Brazil’s Amazon.Starlink – which first became available in Brazil last year and has spread rapidly – solved those problems.
His son once flew all the way to Manaus, the state capital 1,140 kilometers away, just to negotiate with a group of tourists via conference call. The benefits of connectivity were immediately apparent to bad actors in the Amazon, Hugo Loss, operations coordinator for Brazil´s environment agency, told the AP in a phone interview.
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