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UltraSaneyesterday at 11:52 PM1 replyview on HN

That includes overprovisioning for times the satellite is behind the earth.

And the Tesla robotaxi is still a embarrassing failure.


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ggreertoday at 12:09 AM

I'm sorry, but you do not know what you are talking about. If you'd read the Starcloud white paper I linked to, you'd see that the plan is to put satellites in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit, meaning they would be in constant sunlight and the backs of the solar panels would radiate to deep space. No orbital compute project is planning to put satellites in an orbit where Earth blocks the sun, as that would require large battery banks to power the computers while in shadow.

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