I am just honestly confused. There seem to be no logical reason for it, except that it would raise the stock value of rocket producers like SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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Heat isn't hard to shed. A perfect blackbody at 120C will emit heat equal to the solar flux at 1 AU. Perfect black bodies do not exist. So go with 70 percent (mediocre). Now you need to pump up a temperature to a balmy 160° C... That is trivial to accomplish.

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