Say goodbye to sluggish megabits and spotty wifi. This genius is connecting satellites by blazing fast fiber cables
link
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-si-00
>Let's construct a spider web of satellites surrounding the entire earth
>what could possibly go wrong?
Sounds flawless
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Who would repair all the cables after a week of cosmic and weather phenomena?
>>62409285
>A geostationary orbit, geostationary Earth orbit or geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) is a circular orbit 35,786 kilometres (22,236 mi) above the Earth's equator
That's over 200ms just to ping the satellite. Thanks but no thanks.
>>62409285
Wait. What if we get rid of the fiberoptic cables all together and just use lasers to connect between satellites. I mean the speed of light is faster in a vacuum...
Oh wait NASA already did it.
>>62409285
>connecting satellites by blazing fast fiber cables
Except, you know, for the fact that speed of light is 2x less in glass than in vacuum.
>future
>What is iridium satellite constellation (commercially available since 1998)
Nothing future about this.
>But fibers man, fibers!!!
Meh
>>62410072
This is an even better idea
>>62410025
It's obviously not geostationary