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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by MegaDeKay on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:41PM (#18549125)
Heat is a problem, but I think it is safe to say that power is a bigger one. Those big arrays are really expensive, really heavy, degrade in output over time, and have been known to fail on occasion. [0][1]

[0] https://spacenews.com/33046spate-of-solar-array-failures-on-... [1] https://sat-nd.com/failures/index.html?https://sat-nd.com/fa...

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Re:AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbitin... by z3phyr on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:41AM (#18550107)
Radiation is another issue. I have heard that radiation hardening is very costly
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