Russia didn’t just attack Ukraine on the ground when it invaded that country on February 24, 2022, it also raided Ukraine’s data connections in space. On that date, “a multifaceted and deliberate cyber-attack against Viasat’s KA-SAT network resulted in a partial interruption of KA-SAT’s consumer-oriented satellite broadband service,” Viasat reported on March 30, 2022.
According to the satellite services provider, “the cyber-attack did impact several thousand customers located in Ukraine and tens of thousands of other fixed broadband customers across Europe.” They included the remote monitoring and control of 5,800 wind turbines owned by Germany’s Enercon, with a total capacity of 11 gigawatts.