[BobbyJo]

Maybe, there aren't enough houses to justify the cost, sure. I figured that probably wasn't the case given the proximity to a city.

I'm not arguing that a satellite solves the problem of remote data access generally, they definitely do. My original question was whether or not that specific use case is worth the cost to science.

They don't solve access generally, so the other threads which reference large swaths of the planet not having internet yet feel beside the point to me. The vast majority of humanity lives in densely populated areas, and therefore these satellite based systems still won't solve that problem.