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by dghughes 1640 days ago
Yes but I think the plan is to have any satellite that is over a ground station to be the relay for others. Send up to a sat then sat to sat via laser and then down to the ground.

I'm curious how far each satellite is from the other, do they need line-of-sight. And how much it adds to latency since signals received and sent have to go through networking equipment within each satellite.

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> do they need line-of-sight.

Yes, they do.

> And how much it adds to latency since signals received and sent have to go through networking equipment within each satellite.

Negligible vs the impact “speed of light” (aka distance) already has added to the latency.