Orbital HPC-center based on solar power satellite

A new aspect of human space exploration is considered - the production of information in space. Such production can be presented as a new type of territorial-production complex, that implements the infocommunicational energo-production cycle. A high-performance computing cluster and communications equipment are the load of a space-based solar power satellite which makes it possible not to transfer energy to Earth, but to use it directly in orbit to produce new information. The transition of information production into outer space is a trend in the fight against global warming. The costliness of information products allows us to assert creating a new actual segment of the space market. It is shown that the placement of data centers and high-performance supercomputers in orbit is an incentive to the development of cost-effective space energy. The main trends and technological challenges associated with the development of this field are considered. Using the example of the simplest structural mass model of the orbital computing center, it is shown that there is an optimal operational orbit for such a heavy artificial Earth satellite. Since the specific power of the solar power satellite becomes almost constant with increasing altitude, and the energy capabilities of the launch vehicle fall, then with certain parameters of design this orbit may lie below the Van Allen radiation belts.