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Have they said how traffic will be routed? If I'm in, say, the US, and I'm connecting to a web site in Australia, would the satellite I'm connected to send my traffic to a terrestrial router near me, and let it traverse from there via regular ground links to Australia? Or would my traffic travel via satellite to a terrestrial router near the destination?

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My understanding is this first version will route traffic back to the ground and terrestrially, because they don't contain interconnection links.

Future versions will have laser interconnections and route traffic through space.

https://hackaday.com/2019/05/20/everything-we-know-about-spa...

The whole point of the network is to move the data through space because light moves faster in space than through a fiber optic cable, so I'm pretty sure they are gonna try to get it as close to the destination as possible

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