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Re:Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with Sp... by Gagarin1917 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:47PM (#48042912)
Which is apparently manageable. Scott Manley isn’t an industry veteran, but he does know a lot about space engineering and science. Here’s his breakdown of the feasibility, and heat management is not really a major issue:

https://youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI

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Re:Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with Sp... by throwaway85825 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @10:13PM (#48044611)
Heat management is not a technical issue but a reliability issue.
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Re:Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with Sp... by londons_explore on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:18AM (#48046415)
These satellites will be in orbits where they are always illuminated. That means constant temperatures, which means no thermal cycling and no reliability concerns.

When people say 'running it hot is bad for reliability', they mean 'running it hot and then brining it back to room temp from time to time will eventually kill it'.

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Re:Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with Sp... by throwaway85825 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @07:38AM (#48048157)
It's in space which requires liquid cooling. No rocket is big enough so it has to be assembled on orbit. No liquid cooling terrestrial system is 100% leak free.
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