Comment by red75prime
4 hours ago
They use passive cooling in their MVP satellite (for the sake of simplicity, probably). This, naturally, severely limits the heat rejection capacity.
4 hours ago
They use passive cooling in their MVP satellite (for the sake of simplicity, probably). This, naturally, severely limits the heat rejection capacity.
They use passive cooling _because it's in a goddamn vacuum_. Passive cooling is basically your only option.
_Radiative cooling_ is the only option because it's in vacuum. But you can transfer heat to the radiator either passively (using thermal conductivity), or actively (using coolant). The second option allows to effectively use larger radiators.
BTW, we seem to have Noisesphere instead of Noosphere.