[HN Gopher] A Second Look at Geolocation and Starlink
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       A Second Look at Geolocation and Starlink
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-11-25 16:37 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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       | wmf wrote:
       | Huston estimates 2.3M Starlink users worldwide while SpaceX
       | reports 8M customers. That's a massive difference.
        
         | wkat4242 wrote:
         | Possibly a lot of those missing ones are military ones that
         | don't want to be counted for security reasons? Just thinking
        
           | RealityVoid wrote:
           | 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.
        
             | gunalx wrote:
             | Wouldnt be suprised if they said, we have about 2M users,
             | lets estimate a common household per user, to inflate the
             | numbers.
        
         | Onavo wrote:
         | They are not evenly distributed though, so the density
         | differences isn't that big for the purposes of regional
         | geolocation.
        
       | daemonologist wrote:
       | If you have a wide monitor, the CSS can be fixed by removing the
       | background-image from the body, or by adding background-repeat:
       | repeat-y;. (For me there was a beige stripe running through the
       | middle of the text.)
        
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