Since it is in space there is no where for the heat to escape as there is no air in space to transmit that heat.
So does that mean that the ISS gets incredibly hot due to the people on there, all the electronics etc.
When it comes to cooling it, how do the pull it off as an air conditioner needs to get rid of the heat somehow.
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It needs both heating and cooling
People think space is cold, but that’s not really true. Space is a vacuum so it has no real temperature.
In practice what this means is that when you’re in direct sunlight you struggle to cool down, because you can’t transfer any heat to the atmosphere. But when you’re not in direct sunlight you have the opposite problem, there’s no way for the heat of the Sun to transfer to you, so you have nothing to keep you warm.
So the ISS needs ways to cool down and to heat up.
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