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I don't think wireless technology will ever be able to compete with fiber for bandwidth. You can cram incredible amounts of data through glass. It's on the order of Petabits/second for a single strand.



They mention inter-satellite optical links, but an operational space-to-ground optical system might be tolerable.


Free space OAM communications perhaps?




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