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1. Gazoch+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-10-22 14:41:21
With geostationary orbit you won't ever get less than 200ms round-trip latency from the ground (at the speed of light).

Fine for some applications, but a massive regression from modern fiber infrastructure and definitely not suitable for everything (just think how slow the modern web is even with 15ms connections to datacenters). There's a reason why Starlink & co are trying to set up communication satellites closer to the ground.

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