This paper reports the results of highly integrated thermal vacuum testing of key components of a membrane concentrator system that occurred during June 2001. The Dual Use Science and Technology (DUS&T) Electromagnetic Radiation Control Experiment (EMRCE) Team, including SRS Technologies, ATK Thiokol Propulsion, Boeing, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is an industry and government partnership that is chartered to develop flight-qualified membrane structures. Specifically, DUS&T EMRCE aims to complete development of membrane concentrator technologies to achieve flight experiment readiness in anticipation of a near- term flight experiment opportunity. Potential flight experiments are radiofrequency communications. (10 figures, 6 refs.).
Solar Thermal Vacuum Testing of an Integrated Membrane Concentrator System at the NASA GRC Tank 6
2002
7 pages
Report
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English
Solar Energy , Electric & Ion Propulsion , Unmanned Spacecraft , Spacecraft , Flight control systems , Solar energy , Thermal stresses , Thermal propulsion systems , Solar collectors , Test and evaluation , Integrated systems , Space environments , Thin films , Vacuum chambers , Electromagnetic radiation , Photogrammetry , Membranes , Flight simulation , Thermal resistance , Radiation effects , Calorimeters , Solar orbits , Membrane concentrators , Sotv(Solar orbit transfer vehicles) , Solar thermal propulsion , Thin film concentrators , Hexapod focus control systems , Flux distribution cameras , Canister calorimeter , Vacuum testing , Simulated solar orbit
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