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To: MAGA2017

The cellular network won’t work but WIFI could be made to work if NASA adds an access point and some type of radio link to carry the packet data back to an earth based station with an internet connection. The packet latency would be really bad, about 1.25 seconds each way.


8 posted on 02/08/2026 3:54:53 PM PST by bmeyer4646
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perhaps this has to do with the emerging cellphone capability of the starlink satellites
10 posted on 02/08/2026 4:15:09 PM PST by onceone (0311, K Co., 3/5 1st Mar Div, RVN '68)
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