After giving in to Putin/Xi’s demands to not provide starlink internet service over Taiwan, DOD officials are growing nervous about trusting Elon’s Space company with our national secrets
After giving in to Putin/Xi’s demands to not provide starlink internet service over Taiwan, DOD officials are growing nervous about trusting Elon’s Space company with our national secrets
Geostationary satellite internet is not “good.” There’s about 200ms of latency built into the system because of the distance to the satellite, which means you can’t use it for anything real-time. If it’s all you have it’s better than nothing, but LEO satellite Internet is a lot more useful.
Geo stationary satellites are perfectly bfine for 99.9% of the activities that people do
LEO satellites are garbage by design. You need hundreds of them, they’ll all burn up within 5 years due to orbital decay, needing an immense amount of rocket launches to refresh them regularly. , They’re adding a shit tonne of garbage to an already stressed LEO with a Kessler syndrome just waiting to happen at this point.
If what you’re doing really requires realtime and low latency connections them maybe you should look for a better location