At SkySat we eventually realized our satellites were going to be in orbit beyond their projected service lifetime. We started brain-storming ideas for what you could do with a satellite that may fall out of the sky any day and probably has degraded batteries and solar panels.

My suggestion was to add a jurisdiction-neutral bitcoin wallet and bittorrent peer. Maybe Eric Schmidt is thinking the same thing?

uberman · 1d ago

Isn't heat going to be a huge issue if one attempts to run a data center in space?

OhMeadhbh · 1d ago

Maybe, maybe not. Radiative cooling is a thing and if you had a big enough heat sink, it shouldn't be a problem. But you're absolutely right... you can't just ignore it.

bell-cot · 1d ago

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control#Rad...

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