Opus 5.5 builds an interactive 3D orbital AI data center satellite in pure code
The author used Opus 5.5 to generate an interactive 3D satellite that can deploy radiators, cut open its bus, and toggle radiation and laser links, all in code with no 3D software and parameters from Google's Project Suncatcher.
I built an AI data center in orbit with Claude Opus 5.5. It's a fully interactive 3D satellite you can deploy, explode and cut open. OC-1 is a single AI compute node on a dawn-dusk orbit at 650 km, so its solar arrays almost never see night. What you can do with it: 1. Deploy the radiators The chips drop from 93°C to 72°C. In a vacuum there's no air to carry heat away, so every watt leaves as infrared light: 4.4 m² of panel shedding about 2 kW. 2. Cut open the bus 4 AI accelerators with stacked HBM memory sit under a copper cold plate. 3. Turn on radiation HBM is the weak spot. It starts throwing errors after about 2 krad. 4. Open the links Laser terminals connect to neighbouring satellites 100 to 200 m away at 800 Gbps each way. The radiation and laser link numbers come from Google's Project Suncatcher tests. No 3D software. The whole thing is code. What should it build next?
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