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Shouldn't the radiators be directly proportional to the area of the solar panels? (Since there's no one munching on food on board.)
by yreg 1y ago
Shouldn't the radiators be directly proportional to the area of the solar panels? (Since there's no one munching on food on board.)
- throwawaymaths 1y agoyes, exactly. they are going to be absolutely huge and add to launch and engineering costs.
- yreg 1y agoEvery part does by definition add to launch and engineering costs… The point is that heat radiation is not the main deal-breaker regarding this project as some comments in this subthread insinuate.
- throwawaymaths 1y agoThe point is: the power consumption requirements (quote: considering every satellite still has to dump heat and works just fine) for satellite X is not even close to racks of hyperscaler compute.