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The article says they'll be offering service from a fleet of satellites at geosynchronous orbit. I thought there were nontrivial latency issues with related to
by marktangotango 12y ago
The article says they'll be offering service from a fleet of satellites at geosynchronous orbit. I thought there were nontrivial latency issues with related to radio communication even at geosync orbit altitudes? Does that mean these internet satellites host hardware for cacheing dns among other things?
- gus_massa 12y agoThat sentence in the article is completely nonsense. There are 180 designed spots in the geosynchronous orbit, and they are very expensive. (It's possible to authorize to increase that number, but I doubt they will do it soon. Perhaps a x2 if you have tons of money?) From another article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-17/elon-musk-and-spacex-plan-a-space-internet http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-17/elon-musk-an... > Hundreds of satellites would orbit about 750 miles above earth, much closer than traditional communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit at altitudes of up to 22,000 miles. Also, as the orbit is 30x lower, the latency will be (hopefully) 30x smaller.