Comment Re:Happy cooling and triple redundancy. (Score 1) 36
In space you have to deal with cooling in vacuum without thermal convection but being exposed to sunlight for energy harvesting, triple redundancy to counter radiation (charged particles) induced malfunction, and slow data links compared to ground based communications, just to name a few of the challenges. And that is supposed to be advantageous somehow, while low earth orbits get fuller and fuller, and malicious countries demonstrate satellite hunting satellites?
The only theoretical advantage I can think of for a satellite would be that if someone launched one from international waters, if some random government wanted it to stop existing or stop doing something, they'd have to launch something to destroy the satellite, because from a legal perspective, it wouldn't be within their jurisdiction.
But in practice, as far as I know, nobody is launching anything into orbit from international waters, so this is entirely theoretical, at least right now.