• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Then they need to deal with cooling.

    out of sunlight orbital temps are -100C. But thet need hardware to withstand -100C to 120C. Or, they will use a stationary orbit, but that means no sunlight.

    This sounds like an idea floated to ChatGPT. Great! would you like me to write up a business plan?

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      10 hours ago

      out of sunlight orbital temps are -100C.

      Empty space really doesn’t have a temperature. Since there is no medium you can’t transfer heat by convection or conduction, so you definitely would need a specialised cooling system that can dispose of all the heat via radiation alone.