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Re:With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband s... by hackuser on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @05:57PM (#14260557)
> Present internet satellites are all in mostly geostationary orbits that are much further away then the proposed leo

What about the LEO systems such as Iridium, etc. (I forget which is owned by whom and what their statuses are)?

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Re:With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband s... by hughes on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:18PM (#14261116)
Iridium is in LEO, but the comms hardware itself is pretty slow (1 to 2+ seconds latency). The throughput is also very low (2 to 4 kbit/s).

Iridium is a great low-cost, low-bandwidth network though.

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