The satellite allows those people to also be able to get the Blockstream's approved version of the blockchain (well part of it, only new blocks right now)
FTFA
... you didn't FTFA anything, you're lying to yourself. All you did was put your curmudgeony, butthurt, propagandistic spin on a comment you didn't like. Maybe you don't understand broadcast satellite networks or you really are just a giant asshole ... any which way, the block chain satellite receivers can trivially download a 'long enough' record of the latest headers from where-ever to verify which chain they are on.
If you haven't got $100 million to spend on supporting this nascent decentralised network with a broadcast satellite network you should just piss off? amirite?