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Does anyone know why opting aircrafts instead of satellites ?

• cup-of-tea 8y ago
  Geostationary satellites are a long way away. Twice as far out as GPS satellites. You need a big dish to communicate with them.
• dboreham 8y ago
  Rockets Expensive.
• wongarsu 8y ago
  Because satellite internet already exists and apparently didn't fully solve the problem. Better satellite internet would help. But the best way to do that is to fly the satellites lower, which means you need a lot more of them. Unless you happen to own the cheapest space launch service on the market that's hard to do, so only Elon Musk is really pursuing that path. Aircraft on the other hand are kind of like really close satellites that are cheap to refuel. Satellites (that aren't geostationary) are all or nothing: you either cover the entire globe or it isn't very useful. Other aircraft are easy to keep over one select area