Hardware & Orbit Setup
ORBIT PARAMS
SCENARIO PRESETS
Nvidia Compute Nodes
64
Orbital Altitude (km)
550 km
Solar Array Output (W)
15,000 W
Radiator Heat Dissipation
85%
Tungsten Shielding (mm)
5.0 mm
Thermal Physics: In space vacuum, convection is zero. 100% of GPU compute heat must be radiated away through Stefan-Boltzmann surface dissipation.
Thermal Equilibrium & Orbit Dynamics
LOW EARTH ORBIT
Thermal Load (GPU Heat)
Radiator Capacity
Solar Array Yield
TOTAL COMPUTE THROUGHPUT
6,144 TFLOPS
NET THERMAL MARGIN
+2,200 W
TOTAL PAYLOAD MASS
1,408 kg
EST. SPACEX LAUNCH COST
$3,872,000
Flight Telemetry & Health
STARLINK EDGE BUS
Continuous Power Draw
12,800 W
Orbital Period
95.6 min
Eclipse Duration / Rev
35.4 min
Equilibrium Core Temp
48.2 °C
Annual Radiation SEU Risk
2.1% / yr
Launch Efficiency
480 GFLOPS/W
SpaceX Vehicle Match
Falcon 9 Dedicated
Mission Assessment
Cluster power draw is fully satisfied by the 15 kW deployable solar wings. Radiators maintain a safe 2,200 W buffer before thermal throttling. 5mm shielding provides acceptable mean time between SEU radiation resets.