The US State Department is already a large customer for dedicated transponder capacity, in C-band hemispheric and Ku beams in some weird places in the world.

As a randomly chosen example if you take a look at the roof of the UK embassy in Kabul, there's a nice 4 meter size Andrew/Commscope compact cassegrain dish up there. Pretty typical thing already for embassies, the big difference would be that that they'll have more market options for high-throughput service.

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 10:18 PM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

On 3/29/21 02:23, Eric Kuhnke wrote:

>
> I am not saying it is an impossible problem to solve, but any system
> intended for that sort of purpose would have to be designed for
> circumvention, and not a consumer/COTS adaptation of an off the shelf
> starlink terminal.

Behind the walls of an embassy, perhaps :-).

Mark.