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I will say it seems utterly bonkers, given the cost of airliners, that we're talking about transmission costs on the order of minutes and not doing per-second u

• dale_glass 4y ago
  Airliners are expensive, but satellites are even more so. Also there's a whole lot of air traffic.
  • lxgr 4y ago
    You don't need one satellite per airplane, just like you don't need one base station per mobile phone. Modern satellites can shift terabits per second. They can handle a lat/long pair every couple of minutes sent by every oceanic flight in the air comfortably (even when only using the L-band, which needs much smaller and simpler antennas than those used for in-flight Wi-Fi).