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by throwawaymaths 362 days ago
yes, exactly. they are going to be absolutely huge and add to launch and engineering costs.
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yreg 360 days ago
Every part does by definition add to launch and engineering costs…

The point is that heat radiation is not the main deal-breaker regarding this project as some comments in this subthread insinuate.

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throwawaymaths 360 days ago
The point is: the power consumption requirements (quote: considering every satellite still has to dump heat and works just fine) for satellite X is not even close to racks of hyperscaler compute.
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