The Aerospace Corporation has recently investigated common spacecraft architectures and designs to increase customer flexibility in reconfiguring payloads suites in space. These studies determined that a near-adiabatic payload-bus thermal interface is an optimal choice for meeting enhanced program and mission requirements. This report adds to these discussions by focusing on how a near-adiabatic payload-bus interface design impacts subsystem and vehicle integration and testing, and the results showed several advantages over current single line flow integration, including: Simplified and improved integration and thermal testing, Cost savings from reduced vehicle-level testing, Better test effectiveness and requirements verification during thermal testing, and Elimination of the vehicle-level thermal vacuum testing.
Application of Thermally Isolating Payloads from Bus for Vehicle Thermal Testing
2022
13 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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