> The heat is from the sun. All orbiting satellites must have > radiators > and a cooling system to shed this excess heat. Since the Shuttle > Orbiters must survive re-entry, the radiators cannot be located > anywhere > on the outer surface and they are located in the payload bay. The > payload bay doors must be open for them to function, so when the > shuttles reach orbit, the first order of business is to get the > doors > open, and they are left open until about one rev prior to de-orbit. Did the Apollo spacecraft have radiators, too, or did they 'only' rotate the spacecraft to spread out the heat intensity over most of the hull surface? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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