This is the Year Internet From Space Gets Really Serious
Universe Today Maybe this will generate some competition and drive prices down and provided internet features and bandwidth up.
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2oldman wrote:
Latency (delay) has been a nagging problem for satellite service so far. Don't know if this system will be better, although these will be Leos.
That should help a lot. EchoStar 19 (HughesNet) is at 23,200 miles where LEO is at about 1,200 miles. Between DNS resolution and the actual request, you're typically around 600-800 ms minimum (due to the speed of light) for a response from HughesNet. With a LEO satellite, you're only losing about 30 ms to that portion of it.
