• Question: does engineering get hot @norbert

    Asked by Reecycle to Norbert on 23 Jun 2015.
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      Norbert Gogiel answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Hi!

      I think engineering does get hot sometimes :). Especially, when you deal with thermal control of a spacecraft. The radiation is transmitted into the spacecraft and it has nowhere to go and it warms the spacecraft to dangerous temperatures.

      As a spacecraft travels around the Earth its ‘facing’ the Earth and its ‘back’ is directed towards an empty space (around -230degC) and the energy will dissipate to there.

      I hope this helps 🙂

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