As long as stuff was in the shade, they wouldn’t have a cooling problem, right?
“As long as stuff was in the shade, they wouldn’t have a cooling problem, right?”
Wrong. Assuming “air cooling”, as opposed to water cooling via a nearby lake, there is no air in outer space to carry off the heat. The only “carry off” mechanism would be radiation, which is vastly inferior to convection with an adjacent gas or liquid.
“As long as stuff was in the shade, they wouldn’t have a cooling problem, right?”
Wrong. Assuming “air cooling”, as opposed to water cooling via a nearby lake, there is no air in outer space to carry off the heat. The only “carry off” mechanism would be radiation, which is vastly inferior to convection with an adjacent gas or liquid.