This paper reports on the recently completed thermal balance/thermal vacuum testing of an MSAT satellite, the first satellite to provide mobile communications service for all of continental North America. MSAT is a two-spacecraft program, using a three-axis-stabilized HUGHES HS-601 series bus as the vehicle for the Canadian-designed payload. The thermal tests performed at the Canadian Space Agency's David Florida Laboratory in Ottawa, Canada, lasted approximately 32 days.
Thermal Balance Testing of the MSAT Spacecraft
1994
14 pages
Report
No indication
English
Unmanned Spacecraft , Manned Spacecraft , Canadian space program , Mobile communication systems , Msat , Research facilities , Space environment simulation , Space laboratories , Thermal analysis , Thermal vacuum tests , Communication satellites , Infrared radiation , Payloads , Radiant heating , Shrouds , Foreign technology
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