Much as the idea of having my personal satellite is appealing, I rather suspect that the report which refers to each user getting a personal satellite actually means to suggest that they get their own satellite dish, which is mildly disappointing.
Both Choice and Whistleout provide advice on Starlink. Neither refer to a “Personal Satellite” product. It may be helpful to post the details of the site you saw this promotion/term used on. It may be simply a marketing phrase or unfortunately possibly a SCAM promotion. Google did not find the term for me.
StarLink does provide a “portable” product sold as Starlink - Roam. In addition to ordering direct there are numerous resellers Telstra, BCF, JB HiFi.
Choice has a recent review.
Perhaps you might like to re-read the article to which you referred me, which uses the term “personal satellite” several times:
“You connect your home to the global network using a personal satellite.”
”Personal satellites come with a floor stand, but optional wall and roof mounts are available to buy.”
”You can plonk your personal satellite just about anywhere that has coverage, without the need for internet cables or a fixed address.”
”Residential plans need the personal Starlink satellite and modem to connect”
”Even the ‘mini’ version of the personal satellite, which is designed to fit in a backpack and sold separately, is still bigger than a smartphone.”
It is possible that Starlink refers to the reiver as a personal satellite, but frankly, if it does, that seems pretty ridiculous, given the normal usage of the term!
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Agree. Appreciate your initial observations and follow up. Thank you @MessyJez.
Further surprised usage of the descriptor has been repeated in the Choice review. I had made a brief search and looked at several other sites providing details of the StarLink services available in Australia. Noted other more accurate descriptions of the kit supplied with no immediate reference to the “colloquial” description suggested. It’s not to say other sites or material do differ and reflect what Choice has reproduced.
As previously noted Google did not respond in the affirmative when asking about the Starlink Personal Satellite as a product. It does how ever respond when one asks if it may be a reference to a StarLink antenna panel array. The suggested response is that it’s a colloquial term for the antenna. 
Although misleading it may escape legal recourse if considered to be marketing “puffery”. There’s an interesting community topic on the use of puffering in marketing and whether ti should be permitted or better regulated.
One source (starlink.com) I’d previously looked to simply refers to the Antenna array as the Starlink .
Also of interest: https://api.starlink.com/public-files/installation_guide_standard_kit.pdf
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