Months of Russian bombing destroyed or damaged roads and buildings and services in Ukraine. Starlink satellites restored internet service for both civilians and the military (Monday's video).
As a division of SpaceX, Starlink provides "high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations across the globe."
Latency refers to the lag "between the sending of a given piece information and the corresponding response," the gap of time before you get the action that you wanted. Low latency is not optional but a requisite in applications like autonomous driving, factory robots, virtual reality.
While 80 milliseconds (thousandths of a second) is considered good, Starlink claims a latency as small as 20 ms.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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