Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
nabladabla@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.