In spacecraft design, the function of the thermal control system (TCS) is to keep all the spacecraft's component systems within acceptable temperature...
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Heat pipe (category Spacecraft components)
Small Spacecraft Thermal Control – Part 2: Validation Results. Multi-Evaporator Miniature Loop Heat Pipe for Small Spacecraft Thermal Control. Orlando...
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exchanger Thermal Control System Thermodynamic equilibrium Industrial automation Spacecraft thermal control Media related to Temperature control at Wikimedia...
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available, for example when a low Earth orbit spacecraft is eclipsed by Earth. Thermal control Spacecraft must be engineered to withstand transit through...
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Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-4665-9326-8. Meseguer, José. (2012). Spacecraft thermal control. Isabel Pérez-Grande, Angel Sanz-Andrés. Cambridge: Woodhead Pub...
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sensing in space is usually very specific to spacecraft, Thermal engineering for the design of the thermal control subsystem (including radiators, iinsulation...
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Pioneer anomaly (redirect from Thermal recoil force)
accurately accounting for thermal forces was hard, because it needed telemetry records of the spacecraft temperatures and a detailed thermal model, neither of...
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intelligently for thermal control, and also for guidance: short propulsive maneuvers must be executed in the right direction. Many spacecraft have components...
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Life-support system (redirect from Environmental Control and Life Support System)
supporting saturation diving projects Spacecraft thermal control – Process of keeping all parts of a spacecraft within acceptable temperature ranges Submarine#Life...
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Richard K. (9 July 2007). "Optimized Nanofluid Coolants for Spacecraft Thermal Control Systems". SAE Technical Paper Series. Vol. 1. pp. 2007–01–3128...
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microchips, and Mylar films with uses ranging from capacitors to spacecraft thermal control. Evaporation involves two basic processes: a hot source evaporates...
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Processor Solid State Recorder (SSR) Propulsion Subsystem Thermal Control Subsystem The spacecraft bus has two star trackers, six reaction wheels, and the...
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CubeSat (redirect from U-class spacecraft)
battery. Other spacecraft thermal control techniques in small satellites include specific component placement based on expected thermal output of those...
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January 2010). Multi-Evaporator Miniature Loop Heat Pipe for Small Spacecraft Thermal Control – Part 2: Validation Results. American Institute of Aeronautics...
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Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory built the Galileo spacecraft and managed the Galileo program...
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A thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) is a vacuum chamber in which the radiative thermal environment is controlled. Typically the thermal environment is achieved...
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toilet, in addition to three instrument bays with radio equipment and thermal control systems. Up to six crew members could be seated in the middeck during...
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A solar thermal rocket is a theoretical spacecraft propulsion system that would make use of solar power to directly heat reaction mass, and therefore would...
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early United States crewed spacecraft and the current SpaceX Crew Dragon, which splash down in the ocean. Thermal control system – sistema obespecheniya...
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Optical solar reflector (category Spacecraft components)
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. pp. 380–381. ISBN 0-7923-0970-7. Spacecraft thermal control handbook. David G. Gilmore (2nd ed.). El Segundo, Calif.: Aerospace...
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attitude control. Russian and antecedent Soviet bloc satellites have used electric propulsion for decades, and newer Western geo-orbiting spacecraft are starting...
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planetary defense, space systems engineering, space power, and spacecraft thermal control. The Engineering and Technology Group is Aerospace's core science...
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Atmospheric entry (redirect from Spacecraft reentry)
bolides. It may be controlled entry (or reentry) of a spacecraft that can be navigated or follow a predetermined course. Methods for controlled atmospheric entry...
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structure, thermal control, electrical power, attitude control and telemetry, tracking and commanding. JPL divides the "flight system" of a spacecraft into...
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Thermal management can mean: Thermal management (electronics) Thermal management of high-power LEDs Thermal management of spacecraft Exhaust heat management...
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production of the satellite structure and the subsystems such as spacecraft thermal control, chemical propulsion, harness and mechanical ground equipment...
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of a modern uncrewed spacecraft during which all non-essential systems are shut down and only essential functions such as thermal management, radio reception...
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Space sunshade (section Cloud of small spacecraft)
outer space and distributing it to Earth Spacecraft thermal control – Process of keeping all parts of a spacecraft within acceptable temperature ranges Starshade –...
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(DRACO) nuclear thermal engine program. This follows on their selection, in 2021, of an early engine design by General Atomics and two spacecraft concepts from...
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properties allows engineers to control temperature gradient, prevent thermal shock, and maximize the efficiency of thermal systems. Furthermore, these principles...
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