Travelling Wave Tubes (TWT) and klystrons respectively are two of the most important components for communication and earth research spacecraft. Actual requirements have led to TWT's with a heat dissipation up to 600 W (≃ 350 W RF).High dissipating tubes possess usually a selfradiating collector, which does not allow to locate the amplifiers within the payload module. With respect to the requirements of a typical communication S/C TWT with a total dissipation energy of about 500 W, a completely conduction cooled system with heatpipes was developed and tested. The amplifiers can thus be located within the payload module, the heat-pipes being connected to the S/C radiator panel.


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    Title :

    Development and Test of a Heatpipe Cooling System for High Dissipating TWT's


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1985



    Publication date :

    1985-07-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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