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Space compute faces engineering hurdles in interconnectivity, thermal management, and radiation hardening.
Space compute faces engineering hurdles in interconnectivity, thermal management, and radiation hardening.
Diana highlights that while space offers abundant energy, it presents distinct engineering hurdles including data interconnectivity, thermal management without convection, and radiation hardening for electronics.
- Speaker
- Diana Hu
- Source timestamp
- 11:23
- Context timestamp
- 10:53
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