Future Possibilities

Terascale Arrays

The m288 orbit torus can hold perhaps 10 to 100 trillion serversats.

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High Orbit Arrays

For the first decade or two, server sky will coexist with traditional geosynchronous satellites, but as the traditional satellites age and become a very small part of the total communication bandwidth around the earth, they will likely be replaced by more server-sats. Very high orbits will be perturbed too much by the moon, but orbits above m720 ( 20295 km radius ) and below 5 day sidereal orbits ( 123300 km radius ) are probably usable. Lets assume the serversats are deployed "thickly" around the 5 day orbit shell, and that they intercept 10% of the total sunlight reaching this region ( reducing the light to the earth by about 2.5%, much more around the edges of the server-sat "globe". The total power intercepted is 6E18 watts. If 4E15W = 4000TW are beamed to earth, that equals the power that is blocked by the server-sats, and provides 500kW of electrical energy for each of 8 billion inhabitants. The rest is available for computation, orbital industrial processes, etc.

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Deep Space Arrays

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Lunar and Asteroidal Materials

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Beam power to Earth

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Low cost launch

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Scientific sensors

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