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Most satellite internet deployments are in geostationary orbit (at 35,786km above the earth), which puts ground-to-satellite latency in the hundreds of milliseconds. Starlink will operate at just 550km, puting the theoretical latency at just 1.8ms. Even if the latency is 30x the theoretical, that's still in line with the latency of copper-cable deployment.




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