A Second Look at Geolocation and Starlink
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5 days ago
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daemonologist
1 hour ago
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wmf
1 hour ago
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Huston estimates 2.3M Starlink users worldwide while SpaceX reports 8M customers. That's a massive difference.
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wkat4242
1 hour ago
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Possibly a lot of those missing ones are military ones that don't want to be counted for security reasons? Just thinking
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RealityVoid
37 minutes ago
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Or, perhaps SpaceX fudged the nunbers so they look as if they have more users.

Don't want to be a hater in this, I love what SpaceX is doing, but Musk has been known to play PR games, so he's an unreliable narrator at best.

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Onavo
19 minutes ago
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They are not evenly distributed though, so the density differences isn't that big for the purposes of regional geolocation.
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