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Re:Objects designed to explore the universe are now challeng... by fooker on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:41PM (#14170520)
High speed and really bad latency, maybe.
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Re:Objects designed to explore the universe are now challeng... by ceejayoz on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:09PM (#14170593)
Current satellite internet has high latency, because it's going thorough geosynchronous satellites about 25,000 miles up.

The SpaceX (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/space...) and other similar proposed satellite internet constellations would be made of lots of low-orbit satellites a couple hundred miles up. Latency wouldn't be much of a concern there.

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