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Your figures are totally wrong. The distance to geostationary orbit is around 30,000 km, so at the speed of light (~300,000 km/s), that is 100 ms of latency. L
by nwiswell 4y ago
Your figures are totally wrong. The distance to geostationary orbit is around 30,000 km, so at the speed of light (~300,000 km/s), that is 100 ms of latency.
Low earth orbit is 3,000 km or so, meaning that's only 10 ms each way.
Odds are good that if you had a mesh network of low earth orbit satellites (like Starlink) you could actually get an antipodal point-to-point video call with less latency than with terrestrial fiber. That's not a function of bad terrestrial switching/routing: it's the fact that light travels faster through vacuum.