logoalt Hacker News

drum55 • yesterday at 6:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It's difficult to imagine any sort of compute in space given the state of the art rad hardened processor is about as fast as a computer Apple sold in 1998.


Replies

emtel • yesterday at 8:31 PM

You don’t have to imagine. The starlink constellation is a working and profitable massive deployment of orbital compute. (It doesn’t use rad hardened hardware as far as I can tell)

➕ show 2 replies