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That’s the speed of light, an aspect we can’t improve. The article is about bandwidth, an area we are able to affect.
by jtsiskin 4y ago
That’s the speed of light, an aspect we can’t improve. The article is about bandwidth, an area we are able to affect.
- 7952 4y agoYou can send the data through a different medium to improve latency which satellite optical links could help with.
- Zigurd 4y agoIn space, latency will be dominated by distance. In low orbits, lasers will have low latency, good enough for interactive applications. Geosynchronous, Moon, and farther can't be helped.
- HideousKojima 4y agoSpeed of light is still a limit, fastest possible roundtrip time between the Earth and moon is 2.5 seconds. Round trip between the Earth and Mars would be over 6 minutes when Mars is at its very closest to Earth.
- emkoemko 4y agoin space its the distance, light has a speed limit
- bhaney 4y agoThis is already sending data via lasers traveling through free space (and air, which has nearly the same speed of light as free space). You're not going to get a medium with a faster speed of light than free space unless you get into space-warping theoretical stuff. Even if you managed to run a fiber optic cable between a satellite and the earth, it would be around a third slower than lasers through space.