{"id":900431,"date":"2026-09-21T19:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900431\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T19:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:32:13","slug":"will-russia-have-its-own-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900431\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Russia have its own Starlink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russia\/t-19065060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a> is pushing\u00a0to build its own satellite internet network after losing access to <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/elon-musk\/t-63587027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink system<\/a>, which had reportedly been used by <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russias-war-in-ukraine\/t-60931789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian forces in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The planned constellation, called Rassvet, aims to provide communications, navigation support and connectivity from space, similar to Starlink.<\/p>\n<p>But developing and deploying thousands of satellites is a massive technological and financial challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Can Russia create a viable rival to one of the world&#8217;s most advanced <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/satellites\/t-64645143\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">satellite<\/a> internet networks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia is pushing\u00a0to build its own satellite internet network after losing access to SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink system, which had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-900431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}