> because for looking towards the surrounding space there is no other way This doesn't prevent them from looking outwards towards the surrounding space. It jus

> because for looking towards the surrounding space there is no other way This doesn't prevent them from looking outwards towards the surrounding space. It just makes the data a bit more noisy once processing is completed. It doesn't completely obscure anything (unless that thing was incredibly faint and near the noise floor anyway). > while for Internet access there are many alternatives both cheaper and faster than a network of satellites. If there were "many alternatives both cheaper and faster", people would not be going literally crazy over waiting for the service to become available at their premises. You can see such people moping and complaining on threads everywhere while they wait for service to become available. For the market where Starlink is wanted there are often no options that are faster and in some cases not even any options that are cheaper. I've heard several anecdotes of people who were paying $200+ a month for around 1 mbps for internet service before they got Starlink.