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Is it possible at the proposed orbital height that global latencies could end up being lower than fiber? Have they specifically mentioned satellite-to-satellite
by jagger27 9y ago
Is it possible at the proposed orbital height that global latencies could end up being lower than fiber? Have they specifically mentioned satellite-to-satellite links?
For a worst case example, take New York City and Perth, Australia (rough antipodes). Would the orbital infrastructure allow for the only ground connections to be the end points? How many hops would be necessary?
Space comms are just so damn exciting to me. No atmosphere to mess with your lasers, no fiber optics to limit you to 2/3 light speed, no watery weather to contend with...
- jandrese 9y agoI doubt it. The problem is the ground stations. Even if the satellites have routing like Iridium they have to come back down to Earth in just a handful of locations, which are probably thousands of miles from your destination. For a point of conparison Iridium also operates from relatively low orbits but has latency that is only barely usable for voice. Iridium only has one civilian ground station so your calls have to be relayed from there.
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