So actually, it's looking like Viasat will not, but Hughesnet might. We'll know for both by Mar 6.
Viasat and Hughes are both geosynchronous satellite systems. The bad part of that is the distance - 88,000 for a round-trip ping. The good part is they are stationary. If you have one hole through the trees that you can thread, you've got service. Our previous satellite service, the guy threaded a hole that wasn't even obvious to me at first.
Starlink satellites are in low-earth orbit and they traverse the sky about every 7-8 minutes and, because the earth rotates under them, the line of travel is always changing. So for Starlink you need a cone of visibility. At Phase 1, to guarantee that you always have one satellite in view, you need a completely clear view of the sky in a cone that is about 65 degrees off vertical (or 25 degrees elevation to state it the other way). By the later phases that angle will increase to 50, possibly even 40 degrees off vertical. But it's the whole cone. You never know where a Starlink satellite will be.
Or put another way, if you have a dense thicket of trees around you for 360 degrees and you have a 1-meter hole in the right spot, you have 100% service from Hughes or VS. If you have an areas that is completely open except for a single tree that blocks out some of the sky, you have intermittent service from Starlink (and the more satellites they add, the less intermittent it will become).
If you want a really clear visualization, you can see this really easily for free by downloading their respective apps. It's kind of fascinating totally apart from my current needs.
I find it mind-boggling that I can carry in my pocket, a super computer capable of finding its exact location on the planet and then running an algorithm using that location data and what it knows about the position of the satellite to locate the exact location relative to you then, using the pocket super computer's onboard compass, accelerometer and camera, get a view of the scene in front of it, and superimpose the location of a satellite 22,000 miles away in space, 88 times further away from me than the International Space Station. It makes me feel like I'm on a Star Trek away team... with just a *slightly* better chance of tapping into a planetary data web.
Viasat
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viasat.mite.android&hl=en_US&gl=US -
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mite/id859724760Starlink
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.starlink.mobile&hl=en_US&gl=US -
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starlink/id1537177988