NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) has been supporting development of the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG) since 2006. A key element of the ASRG project is providing life, reliability, and performance testing of the Advanced Stirling Convertor (ASC). The latest version of the ASC, deemed ASC-E3, is of a design identical to the forthcoming flight convertors. The first pair of ASC-E3 units was delivered in December 2012. GRC has begun the process of adding these units to the catalog of ongoing Stirling convertor operation. This process includes performance verification, which examines the data from various tests to validate the convertors performance to the product specification.


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    Title :

    Advanced Stirling Convertor Testing at GRC


    Contributors:
    N. Schifer (author) / S. M. Oriti (author)

    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    12 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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