2024-11-15
9 分钟Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu says Moore’s Law of computing power doesn’t just apply to chips anymore – he says it describes the exponential growth of satellite launches, too.
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From Recorded Future news, I'm Dena Temple Raston and this is Click Here's Mic Drop, an extended cut of an interview we think you might want to hear a little more of.
For decades, the growth of the computer industry has been guided by something known as Moore's Law.
Basically, it was a prediction.
Back in the 1970s, a man named Gordon Moore said that the number of tiny circuits and transistors on a chip would double every two years.
Moore's Law is the reason we went from room sized computers to to the ones we carry in our pockets.
And it set the stage for all the electronics we use to get smaller, faster and less expensive.
But it turns out Moore's Law has other applications.
Former NASA astronaut Ed Liu says Moore's Law is making its presence felt in space, not just with smaller, less expensive satellites, but with the sheer number of satellite launches we're now seeing.
If you look at the annual rate at which satellites are launched into space, it has been doubling every two years.
And he explains what we need to do to try to deal with that.
We'll be right back.
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