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What is the designed lifespan of a Starlink satellite?

• stingraycharles 6mo ago
  5 years. https://starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf https://starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satel...
  • rbanffy 6mo ago
    I don’t think the flash storage would keep data integrity for that long without a lot of redundancy. Also, processing capacity would be limited as well. Is there a problem that can be solved with a LEO server that can’t be better solved with the same amount of money sitting in a datacenter somewhere?
    • dsr_ 6mo ago
      Pumping the SpaceX IPO.
    • gbgarbeb 6mo ago
      $20 FPGAs have single event upset modules built in these days. You really think it's that hard to make a 2kB bootloader triple or quadruple redundant?