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Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by bigyabai on Sunday November 30, 2025 @04:13PM (#46100472)
> Space datacenters have the dual-use of tracking and weapons targeting

Space datacenters aren't going to be equipped with military infrared sensors. They stick out like a sore thumb on the electromagnetic spectrum and the second you test it every peer-power would know it's a military platform. Nevermind the fact that the satellites don't transmit to American C2, so they'd need laggy ad-hoc networking to reach STRATCOM over on Link 16.

> Musk is involved in every aspect of Golden Dome.

SpaceX is the only firm on the planet produces a booster stack with the throw weight to put a usable kinetic weapon in orbit. It's not their first military contract, Musk has been sticking his nose in the NRO projects for years now.

Are you the user forgot-im-old? Your stylometry (and obsession with Musk/SDI) is pretty familiar. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forgot-im-old

Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by exomonk on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:05PM (#46100900)
Not sure what you're trying to say

If you're interested in Musk and the Mars Society history as a front for the U.S. military industrial complex, a good start is https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-recruiting-elon-musk-...

And that was written before Musk won the recent Golden Dome contracts, etc.. so very precient

Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by bigyabai on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:15PM (#46100978)
You're talking past everything I said. Do you have any sources for your claim that space based datacenters are dual-use?
Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by exomonk on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:07PM (#46101851)
Easy: https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/data-cen...

SDA’s “Battle Management Layer will provide automated space-based battle management through command and control, tasking, mission processing and dissemination” to support time-sensitive kill-chain closure. https://www.sda.mil/battle-management

Golden Dome and future missile tracking and ISR will depend on real -time insights, which requires Edge Computing on orbit, running advanced AI/ML algorithms.” https://unibap.com/news/defense-in-the-foreground

sorry can't help you with your user feuds

Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by bigyabai on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:44PM (#46102116)
The only link that you provided mentioning dual-use satellites is from a Swedish defense contractor at an expo.

Is SDA "tracking and targeting" on consumer satellites, or are they not? Let's narrow this down to your initial claim.

Re:Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea by exomonk on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:36PM (#46210287)
They're still physically the same Starlink satellites being used for Golden Dome.