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croteyesterday at 11:44 PM1 replyview on HN

That's pretty much a solved problem. We've had geostationary constellations for TV broadcast at hundreds of megabytes for decades now, and lasers for sat-to-sat comms seems to be making decent progress as well.


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bastawhizyesterday at 11:46 PM

> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power

Which satellites are operating from "deep space"?

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