On 11/2/2014 3:08 PM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m36209$kk3$1@dont-
email.me:

No, I don't think any part of the ISS is in "constant shadow". I
believe it rotates as it orbits the earth, and different parts of it are
in the shade at different times. I could be wrong, though - I've never
been there


Fair enough. I know that Apollo used to do the 'barbeque roll', but as far as
I know there's less need of it on the ISS for whatever reason. Maybe they use
the solar panels for shade part of the time, there's a lot of those... Or
maybe it's in Earth's shadow often enough to get by... Or maybe it rolls
constantly and I just had no idea.

About particles, I don't know what sort of quantities there could be, or
energies involved, but I'll settle for the realisation that an amount capable
of causing heating would be long past rendering an antenna too noisy to use,
probably. I suspect heating by remnant of mass coronal ejection might be the
least of its worries.


Not many particles in a vacuum

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