Satellites mean you are eating round trip delay times to orbit and back, encode and decode on both ends, signal strength competition, etc. It's a bad trade. Spe

Satellites mean you are eating round trip delay times to orbit and back, encode and decode on both ends, signal strength competition, etc. It's a bad trade. Speed of light limits are a big limiting factor, which is another way of saying you want to minimize your total transmission distance. Going into orbit increases your total transmission distance. If you can afford to put in the infrastructure, you never want to go into orbit.