Karam, who worked at Fairchild Space Company in close association with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, anticipates refutations of some of his hardware performance data. For such is the nature of the precarious conditions taken into account in controlling the temperature of a satellite. He also notes that crucial bits and pieces of work on thermal control remain casually stored and undisseminated. These caveats aside, he ventures into discussions of thermal energy management, heat transfer, radiation in thermal control, heating fluxes, satellite thermal analysis, hardware control, and thermal verification tests. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.