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How to satellites dissipate heat in the vacuum of space?

Since resistors generate heat and many, if not all satellites have a large amount of them on board, how is the heat generated by these resistors dissipated into a vacuum?
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There are three modes of heat transfer in thermodynamics: convection, conduction and radiation.  It is true that there is essentially no convection in the vacuum of space, so all heat generated is dissipated by infrared radiation (electromagnetic waves that travel until they hit some object).

EDIT: heat generated by high output components (processors, memory) may be conducted by heat sinks, but ultimately, any heat dissipated by the system as a whole would be through radiation.