I am just honestly confused. There seem to be no logical reason for it, except that it would raise the stock value of rocket producers like SpaceX and Blue Origin.
I am just honestly confused. There seem to be no logical reason for it, except that it would raise the stock value of rocket producers like SpaceX and Blue Origin.
This idea makes sense only for starlink and similar networks.
The main issue with such satelite internet is ping. It takes few milliseconds for light (transmitting data) to travel to satelite and again back to servers on earth. This communication happens quite a few times for example in case of loading a website. There are probably some usecases where companies/users would be willing to pay for such speed increase.
Polluting sky with servers could reduce latency by half. For people using fibre on earth this does not make sense. We are better off with servers on the ground.