SpaceX erred on the side of caution with its original Starlink coverage map in South Africa.
Moving the mouse cursor over the map provides a date for which SpaceX plans to bring the Starlink service to a particular country or region.
The cities and towns within the circle included Upington, Ladismith, Beaufort West, and De Aar, with the distance between its northernmost and southernmost tips measuring over 550km. The image below is a screenshot of the Starlink coverage map in late May 2022, with the initial exclusion zone shown inside the red ring.
With input from the SKA team, the company has since adjusted the ring to cover a much smaller area surrounding the South African SKA site. Notably, the borders of the exclusion circle now correlate closely with the legally-protected Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Area, the world’s largest radio quiet zone.
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