Thermal control canister
Abstract
An apparatus for maintaining a heat dissipating load at a substantially constant temperature, and more particularly, to such an apparatus where in variable conductance heat pipes control the radiating area of a radiator is described.
- Publication:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979nasa.rept.....O
- Keywords:
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- Heat Pipes;
- Heat Sinks;
- Instrument Packages;
- Spacecraft Radiators;
- Temperature Control;
- Wall Temperature;
- Conductive Heat Transfer;
- Feedback Control;
- Heat Shielding;
- Patents;
- Radiative Heat Transfer;
- Space Shuttle Payloads;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer