> Indeed. I was watching NASA TV at the wave-off for yesterday's > landing. First order of business was to reopen the doors. The > shuttle > can't stay in orbit long without the radiators in the payload bay > doors. Avionics will quickly overheat. Forgive me if this off-topic (please!), but why is such a great amount of heat created? Is it something more than just all the machines and computers running (my PC console certainly gives off a lot of heat!) ? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99/ 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ 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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