[rogerrogerr]

Starlink very likely leans toward “many cheaper satellites that may fail” instead of “fewer expensive satellites that are less likely to fail”

Their advantage in the satellite-internet industry is that they can launch stuff fast and cheap; very likely this drives different tradeoff decisions than the regime this article talks about.

[Panzerschrek]

Having thousands of satellites also allows finding more software bugs, so that in the reality they can be more reliable compared to NASA-style probes (when each one has its unique software).

[phanarch]

The Starlink tangent misses something important about why software reliability in satellite systems is categorically different from hardware reliability.