Speed of light in glass varies but it’s about 80% of vacuum.   Density matters! 
  Or is it matter makes density?  If your dense does it matter?   If you're not 
matter does that give you energy?

Mark

> On Jan 30, 2020, at 2:45 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think he means bandwidth as opposed to "speed". Surely latency would be 
> almost indistinguishable. However, there could be a lot of difference in the 
> bandwidth. Regardless of the sat-to-sat speed, the downlink/uplink will still 
> be the gating factor.
> 
> bp
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> On 1/30/2020 11:40 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>> In a vacuum it should be the same. 
>>  
>> From: [email protected] <>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:36 PM
>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <>
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Now there are ~~ 180
>>  
>> What's the difference in speed between the laser and RF links?
>>  
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:40 AM Bill Prince <[email protected] <>> wrote:
>> Not what I read. The early sats (the ones other than the first 60) do not 
>> have the laser communications between them, but they do have an RF link 
>> between them. They are functional.
>> 
>>  
>> bp
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>> 
>> On 1/29/2020 7:56 PM, Ryan Ray wrote:
>>> The sats that are up there now also are not equipped to communicate with 
>>> each other. There is no inner satellite communication. Everything has to 
>>> come down to ground stations right now.
>>>  
>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:08 PM Bill Prince <[email protected] <>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> SpaceX got another 60 Starlink sats into orbit this morning. That brings 
>>> the functional constellation to 180 sats. The first batch of 60 don't 
>>> count since they are not equipped to communicate with each other. 
>>> Various reports say either 300 or 400 sats are required to get a basic 
>>> minimal functioning system. At the rate they're going, this may mean 
>>> they will have achieved their goal in another couple of months (they 
>>> want to do 2 launches per month).
>>> 
>>> https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-3-satellites-launch-rocket-landing-success.html
>>>  
>>> <https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-3-satellites-launch-rocket-landing-success.html>
>>> 
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