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I have been told by aerospace engineers that when designing airplanes, you really don't have any extra anything, including energy. The avionics people have to l
by javert 14y ago
I have been told by aerospace engineers that when designing airplanes, you really don't have any extra anything, including energy. The avionics people have to lobby for as much energy as they can get, and try not to use too much.
I don't know if that's still true for space stuff... probably.
- venomsnake 14y agoThe problem is not the energy ... but the weight you need to lift to get that energy airborne. We don't send astronauts in paper aircraft although they are light - we put layer. There are some things that you need - you need them and you get them. If you need 3 x everything = you put them in. It is you engineering duty to make them best, lightest, coolest etc ... but you cannot cut corners. If it was up to me though I would just create some of the external parts of the vehicle as a thermocouple and use the fact that one sight is frying on the syn briefly and the other is exposed into the almost absolute zero. That should create some juice. But I suppose there are good reasons they don't do it.