The thermal feasibility of BepiColombo MMO (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter) is shown. The temperatures of upper and lower decks on which instruments are located are controlled with in the allowable limit: -30 to 60 degrees C. The battery temperature is also controlled from 0 to 20 degrees C. Because MMO is spin-stabilized spacecraft, MMO requires the sun-shield and the radiator-shield in the cruise phase (Earth to Mercury) in which MMO is 3-axis stabilized, to avoid the exposure to the direct solar flux.


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    Title :

    Thermal Feasibility Study on the BepiColombo/MMO Spacecraft


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2002



    Publication date :

    2002-07-15




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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