Was beyond my competence. But, as a student of innovation, I'd guess that lack of gravity is a hindrance to the customary way of etching; but, once the usual way is ruled out, lack of gravity may become a constraint removed.
-----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Moeller <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 2, 2022 3:52 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>; Ulrich Speidel <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink "beam spread" Hi Tom, I wonder how etching would work with no gravity... Regards Sebastian > On Sep 1, 2022, at 23:08, Tom Evslin via Starlink <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think manufacturing orbital datacenters in space is absolutely necessary. Then, at no point, is a heavy set of frames needed to hold the weight of the boards. Producing the chips in a real vacuum no gravity environment may also allow radically different design > > -----Original Message----- > From: Starlink <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael Richardson via Starlink > Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 3:54 PM > To: Ulrich Speidel <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Starlink] Starlink "beam spread" > > > Is there any orbit other than GEO that would make CDNs in space useful? > > While current Starlink don't have lasers that could reach up to higher orbits, maybe a subsequent generation could have such a thing. Maybe there could even be a standard which OneWeb/StarLink/??? could all agree to, and CDN satellites (with bigger solar panels and longer service lifetimes) could be built to. > > Having said all of this, it sure seems that the better place today for CDNs > is within satellite serviced villages. Some may even remember the Internet > Cache Protocol (ICP), which never really got anywhere (RFC2186). > > There are perhaps energy arguments for moving datacenters to space, but stuff just isn't reliable enough, and I'm sure it's a fail until you manufacture in space. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Starlink mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
