Materials In Vacuum Kurt Feltenberger (01 Nov 2017 02:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Tim (01 Nov 2017 03:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Grimmund (01 Nov 2017 13:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Bruce Johnson (01 Nov 2017 16:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum C. Berry (01 Nov 2017 17:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum C. Berry (01 Nov 2017 21:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Kelly St. Clair (01 Nov 2017 23:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Richard Aiken (02 Nov 2017 05:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Kelly St. Clair (02 Nov 2017 06:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum C. Berry (02 Nov 2017 19:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum C. Berry (02 Nov 2017 19:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Rupert Boleyn (02 Nov 2017 23:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Rupert Boleyn (02 Nov 2017 23:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum C. Berry (02 Nov 2017 23:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum shadow@xxxxxx (04 Nov 2017 21:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum shadow@xxxxxx (04 Nov 2017 21:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Bruce Johnson (06 Nov 2017 14:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Grimmund (08 Nov 2017 19:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum shadow@xxxxxx (09 Nov 2017 11:37 UTC)

Re: [TML] Materials In Vacuum Rupert Boleyn 02 Nov 2017 23:27 UTC

On 02Nov2017 1026, C. Berry wrote:

> You'd probably want to leave the ship slowly rotating, to heat it evenly
> (time-averaged). You'd want the axis of rotation perpendicular to the
> incident starlight, which would require active adjustments to maintain
> over the course of an orbit around the star. I imagine a tug visiting
> every few months to do this to all the ships in a given boneyard. The
> tug crews might call it a torque tour.

Just have the orbit on the ecliptic, and the ship's axis of spin aligned
towards the system's north/south poles. Also, you might want to spin the
ship fairly quickly, to reduce the amount of heating and cooling it
experiences.

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