Paint ‘tailored’ to control heat in space

Paint has a new role in the space age. It is being used to control the temperature of satellites exposed to the freezing cold and melting heat of space. One paint formula is already in use for Syncom, the Hughes synchronous communications satellite, which was put aloft into an experimental orbit 22,300 miles above earth last February; another is being applied to Surveyor, the unmanned lunar spacecraft that is expected to carry scientific instruments to the moon; and formulas are being developed for experimenal use on the Orbiting Solar Observatory mission and for the Apollo project.