Re:The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space
by senkora on Friday December 18, 2020 @07:31PM
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For Mars, at least, that would be tens of minutes round trip because of the speed of light.
It works for some things, but for pathfinding it isn’t a great fit.
The other issue is bandwidth between the craft and Earth, which is quite limited.
Maybe there would be benefits to a “orbiting datacenter” around Mars carrying a bunch of rad-hardened compute? I assume NASA has considered this and decided it would be a bad idea.
It works for some things, but for pathfinding it isn’t a great fit.
The other issue is bandwidth between the craft and Earth, which is quite limited.
Maybe there would be benefits to a “orbiting datacenter” around Mars carrying a bunch of rad-hardened compute? I assume NASA has considered this and decided it would be a bad idea.