Astronauts gripe that connectivity is “very slow,” but that could change with laser-based data transmission that NASA has already tested.
Outer space has its perks. But super-speedy Internet is, so far, not one of them.
Connection speeds from the International Space Station are “worse than what dial-up was like,” the astronaut Scott Kelly said on Twitter. (His colleague, Reid Wiseman, agrees: “We have a very slow internet connection, but reliable email,” he said back in February.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/the-internet-in-space-slow-dial-up-lasers-satellites/395618/
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