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by Anonymous on February 19th, 2009

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The Space Shuttle generates thermal energy during its operation in Earth orbit. How is it able to get rid of that thermal energy as heat in the airless environment of space?

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  • by nzguy.. on February 21st, 2009

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    I would imagine the heat is lost via radiation.
    Heat is tranvered in three ways
    Convection, conduction and radiation.
    It can't be conducted to anything, convection can't happen because of the lack of air.
    So it must be radiation of the heat via infra red energy.

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