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Comment by sandworm101

9 hours ago

If they are low orbit then they are moving fast, which means wider radio beams. And if those beams would also hit earth, hogging spectrum needed for final download.

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crote  7 hours ago

Not if you do the space-to-space transfer with lasers. There's no air to get in the way, after all.

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