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Why? (Genuinely curious if there is a reason, I'm not an expert on this)

Satellite-to-satellite connections are handled by pointing lasers at eachother. Ground-ground connections are handled by pointing lasers at eachother through a fiber. Fundamentally they seem pretty similar to me.



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