> How do you prefer the ocean faring population to get access?

Just get one of those big rolls of fiber they use to lay undersea cables and let it unwind as you sail. Mmm, terabits per second!

Why does it have to go through the parks? And radio towers work just as well, it doesn't have to be a satellite hundreds of kilometres up in the sky. Ships already have access to internet through satellites already, there doesn't have to be even more

The constallations are spread for coverage and are in low earth orbits for signal strength, like sharks they have to stay in motion .. and many of the orbits are "precessing" .. they go about the earth and that great circle "ring" itself is turning - physics dictates that they go over all the surface sooner or later.

The SKA proposal is that comms constellation satellites switch themselves off (stop transmitting) when over the S.African and W.Australian SKA exclusion zones.

Other satellites and ground-based radio towers do as much damage to the abilities of the Square Kilometre Array and other radio astronomy as Starlink.

People who claim the satellite internet on ships now is good enough are as ignorant as people who claim dial-up is good enough.