Why Starlink spooks regulators: a 10,000-satellite mesh can route around licensed gateways
kingslyj · x · 2026-10-09
Answering 'why is Starlink a national security threat,' kingslyj explains: today's internet access goes through a fixed number of licensed gateways — submarine cable landing stations and GEO satellite ground stations, with monitoring boxes required at those locations.
GEO satellites only serve a small region below them. Starlink is a mesh of 10,000+ satellites that talk to each other, so a user connected to any Starlink satellite can potentially reach the internet via ground gateways in other countries — bypassing national gateways and snooping entirely.
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