Why it Was Almost Impossible to Put a Computer in Space

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• Correction at 15:20 – This is meant to say "TDRS Satellite" instead of "TRDS Satellitte."

• Globist propaganda. We all know the ISS is under the Earth.

• The operating system at 15:03 is linux specifically Ubuntu.

• guys guys… where i live, that ping you see to the ISS is daily and normal ping….
  i let you guess the country and the reason…

• So weird that still in 2024 the ISS still doesn't just simply run a small reactor or have some RTG nuclear batteries.. It makes no sense that they don't for political reasons when they use them for satellites and probes.. If they did, then there'd be no extreme power constraints, no downtime for solar generation, and as a bonus, spare heat generated can be used to help heat the station among other uses.

• Nice Easter egg in some shots.
  O2 Cryogenic Tanks
  DO NOT STIR

• Super cool

• This must be the most positive comment section I saw in a long time. Not just for LTT.

  Don’t they have iPad too on the ISS?

• 11:41 One correction. The cooling loops exchange heat with the External Thermal Control System radiators (the two sets of 3 radiators closest to the modules along the truss)

  The Photovoltaic Thermal Control System Radiators are the 4 radiators mounted between each pair of solar arrays. They only provide cooling to the electronics for their respective solar arrays. This makes sense because they are mounted outside of the 2 Solar Alpha Rotary Joints which spin the 4 port and starboard solar arrays 360 degrees every orbit. It’s hard to pass a fluid through a rotating joint.

• Is framework going to support the new and upcoming snapdragon cpus

• 1 Mbps connection. That seems like something they should have worked on improving already. Maybe the upgrade will be worked into the Moon networking system.

• This is so cool. But it did make me consider the term Space Age. There isn't much space age technology left in modern computing down here on Earth is there? We've come a very long way from the 1980s. The term still sounds advanced, but it predates the technology I used as a kid in school, much less what we're bandying about nowadays.

  But nerding out about terminology aside, I love space videos. Dave McKeegan's videos debunking myths about the ISS and moon landings are so educational and incredible that he's one of the few Youtubers I have all notifications set on for. The things that humanity have accomplished in space are mind boggling. We get so used to what life is like here on our little orb that we are so often baffled by the challenges of travelling off of it. Even by just a little way like the ISS is. I am super excited for the upcoming Artemis stuff and the future that it might bring for our crazy little species. And anything delving into the technology that makes such projects possible is a must watch for me.

• Remember they had no radiation shielding for computers in 1969 and project mercury couldn’t keep a chimp alive past 600miles and the ISS is 140miles from earth’s surface. But you know conspiracy theory to say it’s unlikely a human could survive 280,000 miles from earth outside the 40,000mile magnetosphere. Hmmm🧐😒 feels like some money laundering might be happening with NASA.

• Hey, they use the LTT naming convention!

  Can't wait to see new New new New spaceborn 1 in 2030.

• Canada did a great job on those iss robot arms though… great job canada. Oh sory aboot that.

• At least in space Linus can’t drop anything

• It's was so cool, but space is the coolest.

• More content like this please? Love the historical and scientific based educational type stuff

• A very nice episode. More like this one

• are the facial treatments done… can we have the beard back please

• Pretty cool seeing Linus talk about our ISS Hardware. A lot of information about ExPRESS Racks are provided on NASAs website as well as other payloads. To get a little more specific Spaceborne is actually housed in one of our Basic ExPRESS Racks. From its name you can tell it has a fewer resources than a standard ExPRESS Rack but it still has all of the resources that the Spaceborne team needed for their payload.

• This adds a whole new meaning to the words “spacial computing” lol😂

• Why blur astronauts faces? Aren't they NASA photos, and therefore public domain anyway?

• How come the transmission of some pictures of gloves takes 5 full days, but live transmission of hi res video is practically real time? Eh? Just more anomalies to the official story.

• ive always loved the server videos, but a SPACE server? by golly

• Yet another reason why men never went to the moon in the apollo missions (simulations)

• This type of video remind me of modern marvel tv show when I was growing up. Love it 🙂

• Gotta be honest with all these power constraints I feel like Apple would have been a good partner considering how powerful and efficient the M chip line is

• Wait, they really use WIFI from 1998 but have machine learning for their gloves? I'm surprised they don't make some minor adjustments to the power budget and trial a new system for a few months. These days it takes a fraction of the power for much better signal integrity, at least on earth.
  Edit: I of course mean in conjunction with their old system too. It would give real world data to compare against without that much of a trade-off, plus it would give them the option to fall back to the old and known one in case it didn't work.

• Seems like the whole internet issue is more of a "Is the juice worth the squeeze" type situation. While it would be nice, right now they dont NEED any more bandwidth.

• They were going to have Linus go to the ISS for this video but they watched all his videos first and were afraid he would drop the ISS…..

• just me 😑or is there aliens and ufos in the window

• Just put a radiation resistant chassis around the laptop.

• 15:21 TDRS, not TRDS

• "I'd Put Crickets Here, But There's No Sound In Space" hahaha Kudos Editor, Kudos…

• We need a guide on assembling PC on space station now

• Why blur pictures of people in public domain photographs?

• I don't understand how there isn't a company that NASA or SpaceX is directly contracted with to build purpose built equipment for this. It used to be bragging rights in the EXTREME to be able to say your company is developing technology for space. Has society changed so much in the last 20 years that people no longer see this as a good thing? HOW?!

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