Right right, I was guessing you were familiar, I was just pointing it out because I think a lot of people reading think about it in the context of HughesNet et

Right right, I was guessing you were familiar, I was just pointing it out because I think a lot of people reading think about it in the context of HughesNet et al, and I think that leads them to write it off prematurely. I read a nice overview of the constellations a while back, but I realize now that it's actually pretty outdated (2018, and it talks about optical crosslinks between SpaceX's satellites, which has been punted for now): http://www.mit.edu/~portillo/files/Comparison-LEO-IAC-2018-slides.pdf http://www.mit.edu/~portillo/files/Comparison-LEO-IAC-2018-s... So I don't know if my comment about throughput is accurate anymore.