Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites generally circle the Earth at an altitude of somewhere under 1000km – sometimes as low as 160 km – which you would not be wrong to point out is rather far from your home, or anyone’s home for that matter. On the other hand, others see that distance as an opportunity – in a universe where sometimes the closest point to an end user is a satellite orbiting overhead. This is the vision of CDN and caching specialist Varnish Software, which has a project in the works with the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) 5G-Emerge consortium, together with the European Space Agency (ESA), to blanket satellite broadband and media services across rural parts of Europe. A budding…