How soon could AI data centers move to orbit? Forethought analyzes launch costs, cooling physics, and other engineering and governance factors needed to make space compute viable.
Yeah… I’d be doubtful about that section as well. The article about very good radiators they cite is from a paper on nuclear propulsion in space. Very different scenario for one. What I find in the pdf available for download there is not very revealing, as diagrams or method is not clearly explained (perhaps it is elsewhere), but if I read the thermal image of the fin correctly, temperatures are waaay higher than proposed operating temperatures. Maybe this is not an issue and fin temperatures can be a lot higher, I don’t know. But yeah, I’m a bit sceptical.
Yeah… I’d be doubtful about that section as well. The article about very good radiators they cite is from a paper on nuclear propulsion in space. Very different scenario for one. What I find in the pdf available for download there is not very revealing, as diagrams or method is not clearly explained (perhaps it is elsewhere), but if I read the thermal image of the fin correctly, temperatures are waaay higher than proposed operating temperatures. Maybe this is not an issue and fin temperatures can be a lot higher, I don’t know. But yeah, I’m a bit sceptical.