Recently Elon Musk’s a commercial space company,launched a Falcon 9 rocket which carries CASSIOPE. Part of the satellite’s payload is Cascade, a prototype for a super-fast space-borne file-transfer system—a kind of digital courier service.
The key idea behind this cascading concept, companies, governments and agencies increasingly need to get very large digital data packages, weighing several tens of gigabytes, across the world fast.According to akami,the average internet speed is was 3.1 megabits per second (Mbps). check the below table
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