It’s going to last until some piece of space junk whacks into it, causing it to shatter into 10’s of thousands of pieces. I forsee a time when all of Musks low-orbit agenda is literally smashed apart. One errant bolt at 30k mph at a time…
Doesn’t even need that, the physics of it just doesn’t work. There’s basically no way to cool it and no way to power it. Anyone who thinks a space data center is a good idea has failed high school level physics.
It will actually not last that long, because data centers require constant physical maintenance. Its one of the many many reasons that data centers in orbit makes no real sense
They are designed to be maintenance free just like starlink. They’ll go up, and come back down every 5 or so years. They’ll constantly be iterating on them so new more powerful ones with any issues that existed resolved for the next batch.
It’s going to last until some piece of space junk whacks into it, causing it to shatter into 10’s of thousands of pieces. I forsee a time when all of Musks low-orbit agenda is literally smashed apart. One errant bolt at 30k mph at a time…
Doesn’t even need that, the physics of it just doesn’t work. There’s basically no way to cool it and no way to power it. Anyone who thinks a space data center is a good idea has failed high school level physics.
It will actually not last that long, because data centers require constant physical maintenance. Its one of the many many reasons that data centers in orbit makes no real sense
They are designed to be maintenance free just like starlink. They’ll go up, and come back down every 5 or so years. They’ll constantly be iterating on them so new more powerful ones with any issues that existed resolved for the next batch.
No one is repairing starlinks in space.
So it’s a boondoggle.
Wouldn’t be the first, won’t be the last.
Okay, so right, they still won’t last that long 👍 We’re saying the same thing and making the same points.