Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo...
by smallerfish on Saturday July 11, 2026 @10:52AM
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Have you seen Real Engineering's analysis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qpdUNMt2yg
The compute part may be a rack or a cabinet worth of GPUs (though TBH the public designs are currently vague to the point of being artistic impressions), but they also need to come with a PV array big enough to power that, plus a cooling array that's going to be close to 25% as big as the PV array regardless of what unit size they go for in the end.
If they settle on making e.g. 120 kW satellites, that would be about 400 m^2 for the PV and another 100 m^2 for the radiator.