The hundreds of kilometers between the Earth and the satellites must surely be a drop in the bucket with regards to latency. After all, the distance between Eur

The hundreds of kilometers between the Earth and the satellites must surely be a drop in the bucket with regards to latency. After all, the distance between Europe and the US is roughly 6000 km at the minimum, nevermind the distances to Australia or East Asia. I'm not entirely sure why today's satellite internet connections have such high latencies, but it doesn't seem physically impossible to develop low-latency satellite Internet access. Edit: It appears nearly all of the current Internet access-providing satellites are in geostationary orbit, which is much further away than a few hundred kilometers, causing a great amount of latency. If Musk can successfully find a way to use satellites in low Earth orbit to provide Internet access instead, that will get rid of most of the latency.