Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Let's actually explain how thermal balance of spacecraft works, and how we'd need to configure a spacecraft to eliminated the heat that's produced by computer equipment crunching numbers in a space data center.

This is all very rough, and I overestimated the size of the starlink V3, but it's still in the ballpark. Real designers of course can't just use 'in the ballpark'.

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