NASA's Constellation Program has been developed to successfully return humans to the Lunar surface by 2020. The Constellation Program includes several different project offices including Altair, which is the next generation Lunar Lander. The planned Altair missions are very different than the Lunar missions accomplished during the Apollo era. These differences have resulted in a significantly different thermal control system architecture. The current paper will summarize the Altair mission architecture and the various operational phases. In addition, the derived thermal requirements will be presented. The paper will conclude with a brief description of the thermal control system designed to meet these unique and challenging thermal requirements.


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    Title :

    Overview of the Altair Lunar Lander Thermal Control System Design


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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