How will Starlink reduce latency/ping?

Question

I’ve read posts / other articles about how Elon is planning to allow for low latency / gaming on StarLink. I understand how they will increase bandwidth – but isn’t latency limited by speed of light?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Latency is limited by the speed of light, but the important thing to note about Starlink is that there are different orbit distances in play. the lower latency will come from the ones closest to the earth and the more distant ones will serve as a high speed backbone, used when necessary.

The lower the satellite, the lower the latency.