(June) In the SCP over the weekend (9 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377278

(5 points, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357846

Wow, we're now entering the era of Giga bit data transfer from space.

For context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_Technology_Demonstr...

NASA's TBIRD mission demonstrated 200Gbps laser communications (in a tiny 6U form factor) to earth.

The Starlink inter-satellite laser links are 200Gbps space-to-space, and I believe the space-to-earth downlink of each Starlink V2 mini is 96 Gbps.

Is the next step really is space based data centers?

Starlink operates at ~500 Mbps (shared) today and they claim it will do 1 Gbps next year so I wouldn't say this Chinese demo is ahead.