Correctamundo. You can’t speed up light. For low latency you need LEO, and since they don’t sit still for you (8km/s roughly) you need a bunch of them in some kind of formation or constellation, so that you generally have something to connect to at any given moment, or at least a chain that can relay to ground stations.
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Correctamundo. You can’t speed up light. For low latency you need LEO, and since they don’t sit still for you (8km/s roughly) you need a bunch of them in some kind of formation or constellation, so that you generally have something to connect to at any given moment, or at least a chain that can relay to ground stations.
Kessler syndrome has entered the chat
We could be architechting our own Great Filter (assuming we’ve not passed it already, and assuming we can’t solve the Kessler syndrome).
Some light reading for those unfamiliar:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter