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This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.
Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn't the system keep working, just over a different path?
This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.
Considering it is designed by an American mega corp, yes it is probably poorly designed because they go for profit maximalisation.