Michael Wallis wrote: > > Henry Spencer wrote: > > > Especially for a big manned spacecraft -- notoriously high on volume and > > thus heat-generating equipment and people, and low on surface area -- I > > think you're going to be driven to choose the outer layer purely on > > thermal issues. Using it for power is appealing, but the price is needing > > considerably bigger heat radiators to keep the people from cooking: an ET > > broadside-on to the Sun and covered in solar array will be absorbing over > > 500kW of sunlight, and 90% or so of that will be coming out as heat! > > Rats. I was hoping to avoid the big flapping wings approach. 8-( > > Michael
Flapping? Wings? I thought we were talking about solar collectors to be deployed on a vehicle in orbital flight - i.e., in vacuum... -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
