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Out of curiosity, is there anything technical the Spanish authorities could do to block Starlink (i.e jamming)? Or are legal/bureaucratic measures the only solution?


They can roll up to the starlink ground station and turn of the power or cut the cords.

Edit" it looks like the inter-satellite capacity might be able to handle more than I thought

https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f5...


I believe I recall them bragging about increases to horizontal bandwidth in the later designs. You may be thinking of the original network?


IIRC, Originally they had none


Starlink terminals are jammable, but the jamming source will need to be in it's FOV and it uses quite a focused beam. Not particularly viable for an entire nation.

The ground stations would be a lot more vulnerable, but cutting the cable would be a lot easier than flying a Ku/Ka band jammer overhead.


There are countries where starlink isn’t available. But if you get one from a nearby country and keep quiet it works.

Spain isn’t large enough, I suspect. But they can lean on starlink as long as they’re sold there.


Hopefully not something that can happen in Spain, but in authoritarian countries they simply arrest or otherwise penalize the end users.




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