Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
nabladabla@sopuli.xyz 3 days agoUm, 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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The heat would be moving at the same speed. Though, that does mean it wouldn’t be any better in any other orbit.
Fermion@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Heat energy is primarily dissipated as infrared light which moves at the speed of light. There is no way for space to accumulate heat. If that were the case the entire solar system would be unlivable. The IR emitted by satellites is truly negligible in comparison to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun.
nabladabla@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Again, it doesn’t help the case, but just… no. The heat gets out of the spacecraft by radiating, and radiation doesn’t move in a circular orbit around Earth, it moves at speed of light outwards from where it started.