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Comment by christina97

5 days ago

You probably can’t get under 500 km orbit, so 2000 km round trip is the shortest you can do between you and a ground based server. That’s 150 ms minimum round trip latency.

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p1mrx  5 days ago

Light travels 2000 km in 7 ms. Maybe you took the inverse and got 150 Hz?

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