Sateliot is a Spanish company created in 2018. Through low-orbit satellites (located at about 600 kilometers high) and small size, the company is capable of extend mobile coverage in remote areas by monitoring objects and people with the aim of providing valuable information.
He CEO of Sateliot, Jaume Sanperahas passed through the microphones of the Cadena SER program and has highlighted that, although it may seem to us that connectivity is something present in almost all parts of the planet, the reality is that “80% of the world does not have coverage.”
Sanpera has highlighted, giving the example of what is happening to, the importance of having “technological sovereignty”that is, that connectivity does not depend on satellites from third countries.
In this sense, Jaume Sanpera has explained that “Ukraine is in a war that is different to all those that have existed up to this moment. It is a war in which drones have a very important impact and “Communications are essential to know where you are, to know where the drone is, to know how to direct it…”
Ukraine’s big problem: it depends on the US
However, the CEO of Sateliot has expressed that the problem for Ukrainian interests is that These crucial communications “depend on a company that is in a third country, in the United States, the famous Starlink. And of course, that means they have many limitations.”
As an example of the setbacks that Ukrainian forces have suffered due to depending on Starlink, Sanpera has stressed that “There have been some drone attacks on the North Sea Fleet that have been disrupted because they have considered (from the US) that they should not do them. Or the drones, as soon as they pass the occupied territories, stop having connectivity.”
From a strategic point of view, the CEO of Sateliot has described as “tremendous” the situation that Ukraine is suffering due to having its own satellites, since “your actions depend entirely on a country whose agenda may not coincide with yours.”
