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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by _bxg1 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:04PM (#21141251)
I could've sworn somebody was planning to use lasers to communicate from the satellite to a ground station, claiming it would improve latency. Maybe I misread.
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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by jsjohnst on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:57PM (#21141661)
Lasers alone won’t improve latency, but they would certainly impact reliability. Radio waves already travel at essentially the speed of light.
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Re:Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, s... by Rebelgecko on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:02AM (#21146455)
It's been done in the past. I think the main benefits are preserving EM spectrum and some theoretical improvement in bits per watt
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