Anugya, I live in Namibia where Starlink's license application has been rejected for non-compliance with some regulatory requirements. I not only disagree with the rejection per se, but also with some of the regulatory framework, but that's the way a democracy works, and I have written a detailed letter in support of reconsideration. That said, one of the concerns brought up during the Public Consultation was the routing though the US. I personally also disagree with the concern, but your extremely interesting research idea can perhaps provide some data in this regard. Coming from my former day job, where Evidence Base Medicine changed our way of working significantly, I have become a great fan of Data Driven Decision Making. My understanding is that Starlink is available in Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe of these Benin, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Zambia, Zimbabwe seem to have active Atlas probes (at least that's what a quick Gemini prompt revealed) of which at least Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe have probes connected to Starlink. Might be worth looking into. I can't see your email address reading this on my iPad, please email me (dns-techs@na-nic.com.na) off list how many Credits you need, we have accumulated some over the years :-)-O Our regulator reads in copy, can be taken off from further discussion, I want them to be aware of the research going on. I'll let them have the results in the end anyway. greetings, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (retired) el@lisse.NA / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply On Apr 24, 2026 at 22:37 +0200, Carsten Schiefner <carsten@schiefner.de>, wrote:

Hi Anugya,

what's a rough guesstimation of your needs?

Stashes are well filled as I assume - but as folks on this list try hard to not under-provisonate requesters, not over-provisioning is OTOH also a goal.

Cheers,

-C.

On 24.04.2026 22:30, Anugya Sharma via ripe-atlas wrote:

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Hello, I am a grad student at UC Davis. I am trying to research starlink satellite users in developing countries and if their traffic is unnecessarily routed through the US.

I am measuring traceroute, DNS, ping and have identified Starlink-connected RIPE Atlas probes (AS14593) in Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Madagascar, and Guam.

I would be so thankful for any credits you can provide so that I can get my measurements going.

-Anugya Sharma Department of computer science, UC,Davis

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