• lordnikon@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Yeah the amount of heat a data center vs a satellite your going to super heat the space in that orbit over time. It they are geostationary then its even harder as the the data center doesn’t move away from the heat.

    • erin@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Geostationary satellites are not standing still. They’re orbiting the Earth at the same rate that it rotates “beneath” them.

    • nabladabla@sopuli.xyz
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      4 hours ago

      Um, it doesn’t make the data center in orbit thing make sense, but a geostationary satellite absolute moves at high speed and does not stay in the same place in space.

    • Fermion@mander.xyz
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      6 hours ago

      Radiators in space work by radiating electromagnetic energy(light). Heat can only accumulate in matter, not in space, so that is definitely not one of the things we need to worry about.

    • teft@piefed.social
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      5 hours ago

      geostationary then its even harder as the the data center doesn’t move away from the heat.

      Geostationary would leave the satellite in shadow anytime it was night time over the part of the earth since a geostationary orbit is stationary in the sky over a given point at the equator.

      That doesn’t solve any of the cooling problems just saying that you do get some shadow at geostationary orbits.

      There are other orbits that get less shadow though.