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Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit

by bjelkeman-again on 5/2/25, 6:27 PM with 4 comments

  • by OhMeadhbh on 5/2/25, 6:52 PM

    At SkySat we eventually realized our satellites were going to be in orbit beyond their projected service lifetime. We started brain-storming ideas for what you could do with a satellite that may fall out of the sky any day and probably has degraded batteries and solar panels.

    My suggestion was to add a jurisdiction-neutral bitcoin wallet and bittorrent peer. Maybe Eric Schmidt is thinking the same thing?

  • by uberman on 5/2/25, 6:32 PM

    Isn't heat going to be a huge issue if one attempts to run a data center in space?