How do they cool computers in space where normal fans wouldn’t work?
In: Engineering
Same way they cool everything else in space: by radiating the heat into space. Everything in space is covered my a special white paint that has two important properties: it is really good at reflecting light (which is why it is white) and it has really good thermal conductivity. This means it absorbs very little heat from the sun, but lets the heat generated in the spacecraft (including heat from computers) escape into space.
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