Comment by ceejayoz
3 months ago
You're trading an 8x smaller low-maintenance solid-state solar field for a massive probably high-maintenance liquid-based radiator field.
3 months ago
You're trading an 8x smaller low-maintenance solid-state solar field for a massive probably high-maintenance liquid-based radiator field.
Can't be high maintenance if we just make it uncrewed, unserviceable and send any data center with catastrophically failed cooling to Point Nemo /s
If it can be all mostly solid-state, then it's low-maintenace. Also design it to burn up before MTTF, like all cool space kids do these days. Not gonna be worse at Starlink unless this gets massively scaled up, which it's meant to be (ecological footprint left as an exercise to the reader).