Talk:Space blanket

message: I've seen many claims that space blankets reflect high percentages of body heat(i.e. 80%), but have not seen any scientific literature supporting this, and find it highly questionable if not unlikely. Outdoorvegan 02:41, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I think a lot of the confusion is that it reflects (supposedly) 80% of radiated heat, whereas often most heat is actually lost through convection or conduction, not radiation... or something like that. I'll try and find a reference for it. — pmcm 22:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: claims about space blankets

message: Blizzard rescue blankets use Reflexcell(TM) ... see Thermal Performance & vs Alternatives, although this source might not be considered Secondary, It does gain good provenance from being a supplier to the UK Military. Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 03:33, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't cite the military as an endorsement. These are the people who bought millions of pounds to a UK company for 'bomb detectors' that were shown to be completely useless. The manufacturer said they were based on the same principles as 'dowsing'. The military also handed over a huge sum of 'protection money' to a fake Taliban leader! SpareHeadOne 23:11, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Some Data

message: Does anyone know if the Soviets copied the idea for use by their cosmonauts?  I assume they are standard now on all space missions, now that the Cold War is over and they are commonly available in stores. GBC (talk) 15:20, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet space program 

message: "Civilian versions may be ..."
'Civilian' as opposed to what?  One would expect this to be used to differentiate from 'military', but that obviously isn't the case for NASA, and other space agencies.  Nor would 'commercial' or 'professional' make any sense.  I've replaced it with "They may be...".
107.77.75.18 (talk) 04:23, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civilian? 

message: I am a former spacecraft design engineer and the satellites I worked on all used what we called "thermal blankets," which is exactly what is described here. The article's Manufacturing section only hints at this usage, and needs to be expanded. In the meantime, I added this usage to the lede so I could link to this page from Black Knight satellite conspiracy theory which involves a lost  in orbit thermal blanket. RobP (talk) 23:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use on spacecraft 

message: Are there any independent scientific studies on these blankets?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.91.182.132 (talk) 19:56, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Studies? 

message: At the moment the article includes "...which reflects up to 97% of radiated heat...". I could not find that figure in any of the present references. I used WikiBlame to locate the edit where it was added, and found https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space_blanket&diff=next&oldid=228644241 . 
The reference at that time which might have contained the info I think is "http://www.insul.net/testdata.html Reflective Insulation Test data" but at the moment gives "Sorry! That page doesn't seem to exist." 
At this point in the History, the figure was changed from "about 80%" to "up to 97%". It might be worth chasing up where the 80% came from. I have done my own web searches to try to find heat reflection data, but not succeeded in finding a reliable source. 
FrankSier (talk) 20:55, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the present version again I noticed that the one of the present references is the same as the old ref but now has an Archive link. However I don't see 97% there, and it seems to relate to a different material: some sort of construction material. FrankSier (talk) 21:07, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  97%?