The first and most important question for any satellite mission is “why does this have to be done in space”
In this case, the only answer they give is “because I have rockets and need to launch stuff to make money”
There’s quite literally no other reason the concept of “orbital compute” exists
Kevin 🚀
"orbital compute"
Comfortably Numb
Right now, launch costs drive up orbital compute to roughly four times the price of terrestrial, SemiAnalysis wrote. But the cost difference could fall to 30% within five years.