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nandomrumber06/28/20251 replyview on HN

There’s no free cooling in space.

In space there’s no ambient environment to speak of, so you’re limited to radiative cooling, which is massively inferior to refrigeration.

There’s also no 24/7 solar in low Earth orbit, which is where you want to be for latency and serviceable.


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dyauspitr06/28/2025

That’s actually something I never considered. In a true vacuum since there are no particles, temperature is undefined.

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