Design and performance of the Spacelab Astro-1 mission heat pipe radiator
Abstract
The US Space Shuttle mission STS-35 carried a payload of ultraviolet telescopes into low Earth orbit which used a passive radiator affixed with heat pipes for thermal control. The radiator system was designed to maintain the temperature of certain supporting electronic packages within the range -10 to +35 C, regardless of payload orientation or orbiter orientation in space. The design and performance of the radiator system during its analysis and preflight testing as well as during its flight of 2-10 Dec. 1990 is reported. The flight performance proved to be within limits for the orbit conditions flown.
- Publication:
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ESA Special Publication
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991secs.conf..721H
- Keywords:
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- Heat Pipes;
- Postmission Analysis (Spacecraft);
- Spacecraft Radiators;
- Spacelab;
- Systems Engineering;
- Temperature Control;
- Astro Missions (Sts);
- Performance Tests;
- Space Flight;
- Spacecraft Temperature;
- Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance