  Recent advancements in low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites represented by large
constellations and advanced payloads provide great promises for enabling beyond
5G and 6G telecommunications and high-quality and ubiquitous Internet
connectivity to everyone anywhere on Earth. LEO satellite networks are
envisioned to bridge the urban-rural connectivity gap for the digital divide.
However, the digital divide can hardly be closed by only providing connectivity
to rural and remote areas. Various unprecedented challenges brought by the
emerging satellite Internet still need to be resolved, such as inconsistent
end-to-end performance guarantees and a lack of efficient management and
operations in these areas, which are referred to as "performance gap" and
"management gap", respectively. This position paper will briefly discuss these
gaps, approaches to addressing the gaps, and some research directions based on
our recent works.
