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From Earth to Orbit: How Satellite Internet Connects the World
Follow one HTTPS request from a phone to a website and back over a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite service. At every hop you'll see who runs it, what it can see and what it cannot read.
1 · Main diagram and 2 · Packet journey
Follow one request
Click any component to learn about it, or press Send request. The route shown is illustrative.
RadioOptical (laser)FibreEthernet cable
3 · Layer view
The same request, five layers deep
4 · Satellite vs mobile
Two ways to reach the same fibre
5 · Safe security scenarios
What can go wrong, and how far it reaches
Every scenario uses invented data and a model network. Choose one: the affected parts light up in the diagram above and in the dashboard below.
6 · Learning dashboard
Dashboard SIMULATED
Numbers come from a teaching model and are not measured Starlink performance.
Latency breakdown (one way)
Hops and availability
Timeline
Security status per component
Check yourself
Quiz
7 · Sources and glossary