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Use of satellite links — Starlink, Iridium, and others — as resilient communication layers.

Case Studies— 2

  1. Cuba: Grid Collapse and the Diaspora Communication Blackout (2024)

    How a series of national power grid failures across 2024 left 10 million Cubans without electricity, cut mobile and internet services, and severed contact between the island and the nearly 3 million Cuban Americans trying to reach family from abroad.

    Cuba2024

  2. Ukraine: Civilian Communication Networks Under Infrastructure Attack

    How Starlink, civilian mesh networks, and amateur radio combined to maintain communication across Ukraine after Russia's 2022 invasion, and what it reveals about resilience under deliberate attack.

    Ukraine2022

Playbooks— 2

  1. Communication When You Didn't Prepare

    A disaster has happened. You have no radio, no mesh node, no plan. Here is what you can still do — right now — with a phone, a car, and common sense.

    Individual or household

  2. Staying in Contact with Family Across Borders During a Crisis

    A practical guide for people with family in another country who may lose power, internet, or phone service during a conflict, disaster, or grid failure — what to set up now, and what your options are when normal communication stops.

    Individual / household