I've been hearing a lot of talk about using satellites for data processing lately. The benefit is better energy generation as I have understood it. But isn't there a problem in that satelites are bad at expelling excess heat, since they can only do so passively?

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[–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

My understanding is that computers in space need to have redundancies in the hardware design because bit flips are a lot more common. Radiation and whatnot. Regardless, you can't just shove some parts in a case and expect it to work. At least not for very long.

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