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Doesn't that make their already difficult cooling problem even worse?
by _delirium 2y ago
Doesn't that make their already difficult cooling problem even worse?
- reaperman 2y agoI’d think so but maybe they could orient the radiative panels with just their edge facing the sun, so there’s very little area of the flat radiators exposed to insolation.
- atoav 2y agoI am afraid you are already thinking farther than they did..
- Veedrac 2y agoNot qualitatively. Most places in space have direct view of the sun, and radiators work fine. The problem of scale is the same either way, and it's probably cheaper to scale the radiators than to scale the solar panels and add batteries.