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The Database at 550 Kilometers: What Orbital Computing Means for Distributed Databases
Space-based AI infrastructure shifts the bottleneck from compute to state. Orbit may suit high-value GPU compute, but not storage, because launch costs make satellite persistence pricier than terrestrial storage. Distributed SQL can work in orbit, but needs orbital-aware lease placement, decommissioning, and jurisdiction-aware replication.
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