Long exposure, 68 months, right. But it was only supposed to be in orbit for 11! Challenger being destroyed on reentry made a mess of things.

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

>It was placed in low Earth orbit by Space Shuttle Challenger in April 1984. [...] At LDEF's launch, retrieval was scheduled for March 19, 1985, eleven months after deployment.[4] Schedules slipped, postponing the retrieval mission first to 1986, then indefinitely due to the Challenger disaster. After 5.7 years its orbit had decayed to about 175 nautical miles (324 km) and it was likely to burn up on reentry in a little over a month.[6][9]: 15

>the final pre-trained model came out to about 340 million parameters, and had a final validation bpb of 0.973. The pretraining process took about five hours on-chip, and cost maybe $35. I had my pretrained model, trained in 6496 steps. Things were proceeding swiftly, and cheaply!

GPT-3 had 175,000 million parameters. The smallest of the Gemma 4 models released today clock in at 5,000 million parameters, and I would bet that Google trained them for more than five hours. Just too small and not trained for enough time. A fun art project but not a functional LLM.

But, as a result, Ecombi has a much lower system efficiency than a heat pump, since it's essentially just a space heater pointed at a rock. It only makes sense for jurisdictions with time-of-day variable pricing of electricity, and trades off simplicity and low initial purchase price for lifetime cost.

Is the drag much better than a regular cubesat? It doesn't look tremendously aerodynamic. From the description I was kind of expecting a design that minimized frontal area.

>Additional surface treatments will improve drag coefficient further.

Is surface drag that much of a contributor at orbital velocity?

>Evercoast deployed a 56 camera RGB-D array

Do you know which depth cameras they used?

I walked into a Fred Meyer yesterday and saw probably ten vending machines. The Redbox DVD rental machine outside, then capsule toy, Pokemon card and key duplication vending machines, filtered water and lottery ticket machines, Coinstar coin counting machine...