[AR] Re: venting (was Re: Re: Falcon 9 flight today)
- From: John Schilling <John.Schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:34:44 -0700
Henry Hallam<henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Henry Spencer<henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The crystals wouldn't last long even when not in sunlight, because the
>nice warm Earth filling almost half the sky is, if anything, even more
>important to the thermal balance of something in LEO.
As a small aside, this makes passive thermal control of small
satellites in LEO*really easy*.
If you want the satellite to be roughly warm-Earth temperature, yes.
I had a really good proposal for a constellation of IR sensors on 3U
cubesats
that foundered on the fact that it is, yes, **really easy** to make a small
satellite in LEO maintain a roughly warm-Earth temperature, which for that
application was not the right temperature.
John Schilling
john.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(661) 718-0955
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