Comment by wat10000
Blow up the ground stations. Or the CEO.
Blow up the ground stations. Or the CEO.
How absurd is absurdly decentralized, here. A hundred ground stations? Thousands? Do they really have more than can be shut down by the FBI domestically and blown up by the USAF internationally?
And how does decentralized ground infrastructure save you from a centralized executive?
Over one hundred ground stations, spread across the world. More on demand - Starlink allows one to use terminals as makeshift ground stations in a pinch.
Uncle Sam could bring Starlink down, probably. For anyone else, that would pretty much require WW3.
Executives don't matter as much as you think they do. No credible executive is going to cave to random death threats, and carrying them out would cause new executives.
Now, would SpaceX eventually become a shell of its former self without Musk calling the shots? Maybe. But if the shell you're worrying about is Starlink orbital shell, and the time you're worrying about is today and not in ten years? Killing Musk doesn't help you much.
Good fucking luck. Starlink's ground infrastructure is absurdly decentralized. Laser links make that possible.
Starlink can even bounce data P2P, from one client terminal to another.