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late2part
on Oct 18, 2018
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A university IT guy plans to bid in two government...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
runlevel1
on Oct 18, 2018
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Geostationary orbits are very far away. The speed of light being what it is, they aren't great at relaying realtime two-way communication.
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on Oct 18, 2018
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GEO is also significantly further than LEO.
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