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The satellites are on Low Earth Orbit (LEO), so they are much closer to Earth than typical communication satellites. When the distance from ground station is 10
by Anchor 10y ago
The satellites are on Low Earth Orbit (LEO), so they are much closer to Earth than typical communication satellites. When the distance from ground station is 1000-1500 kilometers up, latency is not a problem. In fact, latency via satellites may be smaller than through fiber as speed of light is greater in vacuum. IIRC in fiber it is something around 0.6c, so a 40 % off from a space-based approach. Also there's probably going to be more switches along a ground-based path than along the satellite-to-satellite route.
- rjmunro 10y agoAlso the fibre doesn't go in a straight line. Undersea, it has to route around continents and the polar ice cap, and sometimes underwater features.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoPerfect solution: communicate with neutrinos directly through the earth for a point-to-point absolute minimum latency link.
- ericd 10y agoBrilliant. Only problem is the enormous antenna and the >99.9% ping timeout rate :-)
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoDepends upon the signal strength?
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