Comment by SideburnsOfDoom
5 hours ago
> Cooling and communications would just require minor changes to existing designs.
"Minor" cooling changes, for a radically different operating environment that does not even have a temperature, is a perfect insulator for conduction and convection, and will actively heat things up via incoming radiation? "Minor" ? Citation very much lacking.
Take the area of solar panels, multiply by 3, thats the area of black body thermal radiation surface. The sattelite will chillax to 27 deg C (300 K):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862869
And is that "Minor" ? Is that actually practical on a reasonable budget? Aren't there better uses for the solar panels etc?
if you focus on shedding heat and make it sound like an impossibility, don't be surprised when people describe what it would take.
1 reply →