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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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