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> I wonder if satelites could just put the heat in some not-more-needed stuff, gas or something and simply shoot or launch this stuff to the space. The astrona
by cesarb 12y ago
> I wonder if satelites could just put the heat in some not-more-needed stuff, gas or something and simply shoot or launch this stuff to the space.
The astronauts actually did that on the moon! Their spacesuits used sublimation of water ice for cooling.
Your limitation is coolant mass. The useful life of satellites is often linked to the amount of propellant they have left; you'd have the same problem with your proposed cooling system.
- pvaldes 12y agoWow, you need ice to take a walk in the cold moon? this is one of those smart tricks that we, common people, never, ever will suspect :-) okay so... so the goal is to be able to cool quickly our station in case of emergency. We had running out of coolant gasses and so and we have "unlimited" access to the materials in the space: "nothing" and sun radiation. I wonder if there is a way to reduce the vibration of heated atoms with electricity, magnetic fields or whatever electronics can do? Is there a physicist in the house?