Timeline for How do satellites operate below their operating temperature?
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| S Aug 17 at 6:35 | vote | accept | Aerospace_Nerd | ||
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| Jun 8 at 3:14 | answer | added | uhoh | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 6 at 20:25 | comment | added | user71659 | @Peter-ReinstateMonica Not at deep cyro temperatures. Carriers will freeze out of Si at around 40 K. The device type makes a big deal. People do 4 K electronics design, and it's a significant challenge. | |
| Jun 6 at 19:42 | comment | added | tckosvic | "However, when a probe is placed away from a star" We haven't placed any probes closed to being "away from a star". Spacecraft are designed for the thermal environment they are going to. | |
| Jun 6 at 16:02 | history | edited | Aerospace_Nerd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6 at 14:40 | answer | added | ScottishTapWater | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 6 at 12:11 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | Electronics (perhaps save electrolyte capacitors) actually like being cold. Some materials may tend to crack, but otherwise: Much better than hot. | |
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| Jun 6 at 11:42 | comment | added | Mithoron | What exactly would "freeze" there? Only liquids can do that. | |
| Jun 6 at 7:15 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 5 at 18:03 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Meet plutonium-238, an alpha emitter with a half-life of ~87.7 years i.sstatic.net/Sfl5O.jpg | |
| Jun 5 at 16:41 | answer | added | Darth Pseudonym | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jun 5 at 15:52 | comment | added | Aerospace_Nerd | dear, @Uwe, I accidentally wrote the question wrong over looking the fact that space is indeed a vacuum. Thank you for your observation. | |
| Jun 5 at 15:49 | history | edited | Aerospace_Nerd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 5 at 15:48 | vote | accept | Aerospace_Nerd | ||
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| Jun 5 at 14:39 | answer | added | SE - stop firing the good guys | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jun 5 at 14:21 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | I mean ultimately the question is correct that objects far from a star will eventually drop to ~3 Kelvin and that will damage or disable a lot of components. I don't know that quibbling over the details of cooling in space is really relevant. | |
| Jun 5 at 14:05 | comment | added | Uwe | I hope at least some of us know space is a vacuum and a vacuum has no temperature and does not conduct heat. The cosmic background radiation is about 2.7 K. | |
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| Jun 5 at 13:23 | history | asked | Aerospace_Nerd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
