This is not to say that Starlink has magically avoided all the friction caused by Musk’s increasingly MAGA politics. There have been scattered protests at SpaceX facilities in Texas, California and Washington state. But analysts don’t expect them to hurt the company.

Still, Starlink faces some hurdles. It will compete with other companies like Eutelsat and China’s SpaceSail, and there are legal challenges, such as how India assigns spectrum. Unlike some countries that auction off spectrum,

Vietnam will allow Elon Musk’s Starlink to provide satellite internet services in the country for a pilot period of five years, with a maximum of 600,000 subscribers, after the government pushed through regulatory changes.