LEO constellation

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ISP & telecomnetworking

A fleet of satellites in Low Earth Orbit - hundreds of kilometers up rather than geostationary's 35,786 km - trading one motionless satellite for thousands of moving ones: latency drops to tens of milliseconds, at the cost of constant handoffs, phased-array terminals, and fleet logistics. Starlink is the operating example at scale.

Satellite internet without the half-second physics tax.

Also known as: low earth orbit constellation, starlink

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