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Indian police demand Starlink reveal buyer of device found in $4.2 billion drug bust | Smugglers were caught with 13,227 pounds of meth


The Indian Coast Guard recorded its largest-ever drug bust last month when it reportedly seized 6,000kg (13,227 lb) of methamphetamine from a boat. Police estimated it was...

One of the company's satellite devices was used to navigate Indian waters in November, which sounds like a good thing, except the boat in question was carrying $4.2 billion worth of methamphetamine. It was operating under the guise of a legitimate fishing trawler, but it aroused suspicion after an aircraft on routine patrol spotted it near Barren Island, an uninhabited scuba diving hotspot. In other Starlink news this week, a Ukrainian-American nonprofit organization submitted two filings to the FCC objecting to the company's proposal to put another 22,488 satellites into low-Earth orbit.

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