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I imagine an orbital server farm would probably be in a higher orbit than the Starlink satellites, and would just connect to them, vs people planetside connecti
by badwolf 8y ago
I imagine an orbital server farm would probably be in a higher orbit than the Starlink satellites, and would just connect to them, vs people planetside connecting directly.
Starlink sats already move past <planetside location> quickly, which is why they propose loads of satellites and phased array antennas that switch from satellite to satellite as they move by.
- mechagodzilla 8y agoHow does that provide an advantage over having the same data-center on the ground? The starlink satellite still needs to communicate with both downstream clients and some kind of upstream link (whether that link is geographically above or below it doesn't seem to provide any obvious advantages for the starlink satellite itself, and the advantages to having the datacenter on the ground are numerous).