Taking a great circle route increases lightspeed time to approximately 66.8 milliseconds. That might still be small enough to miss if you’re teleoperating from Britain a body in New Zealand, but it’s pushing the boundary. Wikipedia suggests 50 milliseconds#Latency_in_simulators_and_simulation).
Getting light to follow the curvature of the Earth without a fiber-optic cable or some other specialized medium seems difficult. Probably better to go straight through and just use a wavelength to which the Earth is transparent.
Of course the Muggle solution is a network of satellites...
Taking a great circle route increases lightspeed time to approximately 66.8 milliseconds. That might still be small enough to miss if you’re teleoperating from Britain a body in New Zealand, but it’s pushing the boundary. Wikipedia suggests 50 milliseconds#Latency_in_simulators_and_simulation).
Getting light to follow the curvature of the Earth without a fiber-optic cable or some other specialized medium seems difficult. Probably better to go straight through and just use a wavelength to which the Earth is transparent.
Of course the Muggle solution is a network of satellites...