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Re:NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed by vlovich123 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:36AM (#36124730)
You have to have enough long distance transmissions to make it worth it. I’m not sure that happens in practice. In other words, even if it were better, the existing status quo is good enough and has a fine price point. Earth based servers are still relatively expensive and need enough physical maintenance on a regular basis. Doing that in space becomes impossible ignoring the fact that you also have a massive cooling problem since space is one big insulator.

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