
Days before SpaceX's record-breaking IPO, India froze Starlink's launch in the country.
In this episode, hosted by Adya Madhavan, Ashwin Prasad Rao, co-author of the Takshashila Institution's April paper "Starlink and Risks for India", explains what satellite internet actually is, and why the world's most impressive constellation comes with a problem no regulation can fix. This is the story of risks mapped in April that, by June, sounded strikingly familiar.
The paper, the explainer, and Bloomberg's report are linked in the show notes.
https://takshashila.org.in/content/publications/20260412-Starlink-and-Risks-For-India.html
https://takshashila.org.in/content/publications/assets/satellite-internet-explained.pdf
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