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i guess the real answer (apart from the niche uses by other satellites themselves to compensate for a slower downlink, which isn’t something that they’ve marketed) is PR. ”hey look, we’re doing this science-fiction thing for real!”

if you have industrialised space manufacturing, there's a lot of things you can 3d print in orbit rather than lift into space (insert asteroid mining setup here, since you probably won't be able to mine what you need from an industrialised moon)

“Most of us don’t understand how [x]’s are made, and most of also don’t understand how [y] works either… that’s a dynamic that is ready made for creating an investment bubble”. (It’s a get rich quick scheme) @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

the cooling issue is one thing but another thing is that we can't send infinite satellites into orbit, we will create a cloud of debris that will keep us grounded elon will never get to mars if he keeps putting things in orbit...