Ukraine\u2019s defense adviser says Russia\u2019s Barrage-1 stratospheric platform could partly replace blocked Starlink terminals with 5G relay capability.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s\u00a0stratospheric unmanned platform Barrage-1 could partially compensate for Starlink satellite terminals disabled by\u00a0the United States, according to\u00a0Sergey Beskrestnov, an\u00a0adviser to\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0defense minister known by\u00a0the call sign \u00abFlash\u00bb. He\u00a0shared that assessment in\u00a0an\u00a0interview with Ukrainian media.<\/p>\n
Beskrestnov said the system\u2019s\u00a0primary function is\u00a0to\u00a0operate as\u00a0a\u00a05G mobile communications relay, effectively offering an\u00a0alternative to\u00a0satellite links. Such platforms, he\u00a0suggested, could deliver high-speed internet across wide areas where deploying conventional ground infrastructure is\u00a0difficult.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the American company SpaceX began blocking Starlink terminals used in\u00a0the combat zone in\u00a0Ukraine. In\u00a0early February 2026, SpaceX chief Elon Musk stated that the move was intended to\u00a0prevent Russian servicemen from using the terminals.<\/p>\n
Roughly two weeks later, reports emerged about the launch of\u00a0the first Barrage-1 unit. The Russian platform is\u00a0said to\u00a0be\u00a0capable of\u00a0carrying up\u00a0to\u00a0100 kilograms of\u00a0payload to\u00a0an\u00a0altitude of\u00a0about 20 kilometers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s defense adviser says Russia\u2019s Barrage-1 stratospheric platform could partly replace blocked Starlink terminals with 5G relay capability.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[149668,149665,350,85,46,36775,141,149666,145,4688,65897,149667,149669],"class_list":{"0":"post-295301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-5g-relay","9":"tag-barrage-1","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-satellite-communication","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-sergey-beskrestnov","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-spacex","18":"tag-starlink-terminals","19":"tag-stratospheric-drone","20":"tag-ukraine-conflict"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}