[SideburnsOfDoom]

> Cooling and communications would just require minor changes to existing designs.

"Minor" cooling changes, for a radically different operating environment that does not even have a temperature, is a perfect insulator for conduction and convection, and will actively heat things up via incoming radiation? "Minor" ? Citation very much lacking.

[DoctorOetker]

Take the area of solar panels, multiply by 3, thats the area of black body thermal radiation surface. The sattelite will chillax to 27 deg C (300 K):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862869

[SideburnsOfDoom]

And is that "Minor" ? Is that actually practical on a reasonable budget? Aren't there better uses for the solar panels etc?

[DoctorOetker]

if you focus on shedding heat and make it sound like an impossibility, don't be surprised when people describe what it would take.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

So that's a "no, no and yes".

[DoctorOetker]

I don't know what you call minor or major.

I know what physics tells us.

[SideburnsOfDoom]

>I don't know what you call minor

Then you picked the wrong thread to insert yourself, it's literally about that.

Which is funny, there are multiple other replies to you, explaining at length that while your ideas are physically possible, they are completely impractical. And yet you think they still could be "minor".