For those who don't know about Starlink.

I have a Starlink terminal for my remote shack about 45 minutes south of Klamath Falls. This is 10 acres that cost me a whole $4000 a while back, at the end of a dirt road. The shack is a 40-foot hi-cube container. The available connections are cellular (9 miles to the tower) or Starlink.

Starlink works there, it's fully open sky in three directions and a hill in the fourth. North is most important, in the Northern hemisphere, because most of the satellites are on inclined equatorial orbits and there are more of them at the polar ends of the orbit at any particular time.

At my home in Berkleley, with lots of redwood trees around, Starlink is still interrupted, but less than 6 months ago, and as they put up more polar orbits this will probably end.

The Starlink earth station that would relay to my remote site is in Tionesta, California - pretty much the middle of nowhere. I suspect this is at the end of hundreds of miles of fiber run along roads or railroad rights of way. Which would be fire-prone, so I don't expect this station to have 100% uptime.

The second generation of Starlink satellites, just starting to be launched, have optical communications and can relay to each other at high bandwidth. So, potentially the network stays up for government when stations are disabled, but I don't expect that regular users will have priority. Starlink can already de-prioritize your terminal in favor of other users when you are not in your registered location.