The Orbital Data Center in Context (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Orbital Data Center in Context

Caption

The proposed orbital data center would be composed of nodes that form a long tether orbiting the earth that uses solar panels to collect energy and lasers to convey data.

Credit

Igor Bargatin, Dengge Jin, Zaini Alansari, Jordan R. Raney

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