llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago[Eric Berger] Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10cross-posted to: space@mander.xyznewspace@lemmy.ml
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-link[Eric Berger] Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?arstechnica.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square9linkfedilinkcross-posted to: space@mander.xyznewspace@lemmy.ml
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoSurely wouldn’t a very fundamental problem be that vacuum is an insulator, hence providing the datacenter no way tk stop overheating?
minus-squareburble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoInfrared radiators If you look at pictures of the ISS, that’s what the big white panels are for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control#Radiators
minus-squarezener_diode@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoScott Manley recently made a great video about this. He goes through (and explains it while doing so) a whole lot of rough math, and comes to the conclusion that cooling datacentre satelites is actually pretty doable.
Surely wouldn’t a very fundamental problem be that vacuum is an insulator, hence providing the datacenter no way tk stop overheating?
Infrared radiators
If you look at pictures of the ISS, that’s what the big white panels are for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control#Radiators
Ok, that is clever
Scott Manley recently made a great video about this. He goes through (and explains it while doing so) a whole lot of rough math, and comes to the conclusion that cooling datacentre satelites is actually pretty doable.