 fireflierCoffee. . .Need CoffeePremium
join:2001-05-25
Limbo | reply to neftv
Re: Finally Anybody happen to know why nobody has yet put a LEO broadband service satellite out there? These other services I presume are all geosynchronous satellites and are waaaay out there which is why the latency comes in. With LEO, it wouldn't be nearly as bad, so I'm wondering why no LEOs? Is it because you'd need several to cover the U.S. and canada since they're closer in?
I've read the Iridium project used LEOs to get around the latency which made phone communications somewhat annoying.
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JonR800Premium
join:2003-08-06
Farmington, MI | Several is an undertatement. Deploying a LEO sat network is expensive. At this point it doesn't make economic sense. |
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