Xbox communications across the earth can be near 1 second one way... So communications going through the atmosphere and van Allen belt and much further have nearly the same amount of lag?
Apparently it takes 1.25 seconds for a photon from the earth to reach the moon. I'm not a scientist but wouldn't it take a lot of power to send that signal through the atmosphere, protective radiation belts and firmament while retaining signal integrity and quality? And on top of that sending signals back through all of that mess while directing it to a specific location?
Xbox communications across the earth can be near 1 second one way... So communications going through the atmosphere and van Allen belt and much further have nearly the same amount of lag?
The communication delay to the moon is caused only by the speed of light.
Xbox communications have additional lag added by routers and by Microsoft's central servers.
Apparently it takes 1.25 seconds for a photon from the earth to reach the moon. I'm not a scientist but wouldn't it take a lot of power to send that signal through the atmosphere, protective radiation belts and firmament while retaining signal integrity and quality? And on top of that sending signals back through all of that mess while directing it to a specific location?