Hi Tom,
I wonder how etching would work with no gravity...
Regards
Sebastian
> On Sep 1, 2022, at 23:08, Tom Evslin via Starlink
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think manufacturing orbital datacenters in space is absolutely necessary.
> Then, at no point, is a heavy set of frames needed to hold the weight of the
> boards. Producing the chips in a real vacuum no gravity environment may also
> allow radically different design
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Starlink <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael
> Richardson via Starlink
> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 3:54 PM
> To: Ulrich Speidel <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink "beam spread"
>
>
> Is there any orbit other than GEO that would make CDNs in space useful?
>
> While current Starlink don't have lasers that could reach up to higher
> orbits, maybe a subsequent generation could have such a thing. Maybe there
> could even be a standard which OneWeb/StarLink/??? could all agree to, and
> CDN satellites (with bigger solar panels and longer service lifetimes) could
> be built to.
>
> Having said all of this, it sure seems that the better place today for CDNs
> is within satellite serviced villages. Some may even remember the Internet
> Cache Protocol (ICP), which never really got anywhere (RFC2186).
>
> There are perhaps energy arguments for moving datacenters to space, but stuff
> just isn't reliable enough, and I'm sure it's a fail until you manufacture in
> space.
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