A satellite connection is an example of a highly latent connection. I've seen issues which have caused all sorts of other types of connections to spike with high latency. It's important, in my opinion, for your site to be able to handle that (and honestly it's not that hard).

Satellite in a bit of a red herring in terms of the point I wanted to convey.

I also spent about 3 years working on systems that had to work across satellite connections so I have a little bias as well :)