How Next-Gen Spacecraft Are Overwhelming Our Communication Networks
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wmf
41 minutes ago
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Starlink is conspicuously absent.
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icegreentea2
16 minutes ago
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Blogpost does mention Starlink in the context of developing optical transfer technologies. As far as I understand, SpaceX does not offer a service of allowing other satellites to relay data through the Starlink downlink to ground stations.

In any case, that would probably only be a usable solution for stuff in lower orbit than Starlink.

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bastawhiz
1 hour ago
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But don't worry guys, AI space data centers are coming, and we'll...uhhh...come up with something before then!
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lightedman
11 minutes ago
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I want to giggle like most everyone else with this comment...

...then I look at what I'm doing at my new job in nuspace (I jumped out of LEDs and LASERs,) and realize I'm one of the people that is tasked with making this some sort of a possibility, without having been explicitly told so.

Faaaaaaaaaaack me. Well, I have a chance to shine if I can talk sense into the right heads.

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infinitewars
1 hour ago
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The push to do GPUs / AI in orbit is mainly to chase Department of War dollars for the Golden Dome program.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...

I hope the engineers who weaponize space understanding how destructive that is.

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ceejayoz
1 hour ago
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I think the engineers working on "AI datacenters… in spaaaaaace!" largely realize it's never really gonna happen.
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__MatrixMan__
50 minutes ago
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Oh there will be something up there that they call a datacenter. It doesn't have to actually work for them to point at it and say "the data is up there and therefore is not subject to whatever regional regulation you're hassling me about."

It's a bit like how one guy bought alpaca socks on the silk road and thousands pointed to those socks and said "see, it's not for crime."

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