The Swift mission Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) Detector Array thermal control system includes two propylene loop heat pipes (LHPs), eight ammonia constant conductance heat pipes (CCHPs), a radiator that has AZ-Tek's AZW-LA-II low alpha white paint, and precision heater controllers that have adjustable set points in flight. The Power Converter Box (PCB) and Image Processor Electronics (IPE) boxes (a primary and a redundant) of the BAT have Z93P white paint radiators. Swift was successfully launched into orbit on November 20, 2004. The spacecraft (S/C) was placed into a safehold mode on August 10, 2007 after an anomaly on inertial reference unit (IRU) #3. It was returned to inertial pointing on August 16 and instrument power up followed. This paper presents a thermal assessment of the BAT instrument thermal control system (TCS) shut down and recovery as a result of the S/C safehold mode. The recovery required starting up the LHPs manually.
Swift BAT Instrument Thermal Control System Recovery after Spacecraft Safehold in August 2007
Sae Int. J. Aerosp
International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2008
Sae International Journal of Aerospace ; 1 , 1 ; 395-404
2008-06-29
10 pages
Conference paper
English
Swift BAT Instrument Thermal Control System Recovery after Spacecraft Safehold in August 2007
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