Orbital data centers and edge compute

Running compute in orbit: power, thermal, radiation, and the applications that justify it.

Scope

• Why process in orbit rather than downlink the raw data
• Power generation and the radiative thermal rejection limit
• Radiation effects on commercial silicon
• Downlink bandwidth as the binding constraint
• Latency, data sovereignty and the emerging market

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.