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Brief: The Radiation Tax
Aug 04, 2026
An interactive research brief on how radiation affects AI compute in low Earth orbit. At 550 km, a modeled 1,000-satellite fleet sees tens of thousands of daily glitches, but error correction and recovery software keep downtime to about 8 minutes a year — while shielding mass drives nearly all of the modeled ~$82k annual radiation cost per satellite.