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The quenching timescales for satellites with $\mstar<10^8\msun$ are short, $\lesssim2\gyr$, and decrease at lower $\mstar$.  %and are comparable to a virial-radius crossing time.  These quenching timescales can be $1-2\gyr$ longer if environmental preprocessing in lower-mass groups prior to MW/M31 infall is important.  We compare with timescales for more massive satellites from previous works, exploring satellite quenching across the observablemass  range of $\mstar=10^{3-11}\msun$. The environmental quenching timescale increases rapidly with satellite $\mstar$, peaking at $\approx9.5\gyr$ for $\mstar\sim10^9\msun$, and rapidly decreases at higher $\mstar$ to less than $5\gyr$ at $\mstar>5\times10^9\msun$.  Thus, satellites with $\mstar\sim10^9\msun$, similar to the Magellanic Clouds, exhibit the longest environmental quenching timescales.