The FCC says the most controversial aspect of Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 satellite, its giant mirror, falls outside its authority since the regulator mainly focuses on radio spectrum.
Yeah space compute centers are idiotic. Even if it could be made profitable it would be such a stupid idea.
The people pushing for privatization of space desperately are looking for profitable uses cases. There is a recent breakthrough with “hollow fiber optic cables” that makes the future promise of faster ping with Starlink mostly irrelevant too.
We should be building a moon base and explore mining and industry and something like a railgun to shoot back stuff back to earth. That would be the logical next step for humanity. But don’t try to commercially exploit space, that is just stupid.
Yeah space compute centers are idiotic. Even if it could be made profitable it would be such a stupid idea.
The people pushing for privatization of space desperately are looking for profitable uses cases. There is a recent breakthrough with “hollow fiber optic cables” that makes the future promise of faster ping with Starlink mostly irrelevant too.
We should be building a moon base and explore mining and industry and something like a railgun to shoot back stuff back to earth. That would be the logical next step for humanity. But don’t try to commercially exploit space, that is just stupid.