Over the past ten years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has actively pursued development of heat pipes for application to various spacecraft thermal control requirements. Areas of development have covered a broad spectrum of mission requirements including waste heat management and rejection, isothermalization and temperature control. Ambient temperature heat pipes have been used inb oth manned and unmanned missions. The paper will describe the experiences derived from development, integration, and flight of heat pipes on NASA spacecraft and sounding rockets. As a result of thise flight experiences, data will be presented in the paper which shows how well heat pipes have performed in maintaining thermal control aboard such spacecraft as OAO-C and ATS-6. Future applications of heat pipes to temperature control scientific instruments in the particularly harsh thermal environment of the space shuttle will be discussed. A direct spinoff of this technology has been its utilization in solving problems here on Earth. Examples such as Perma Frost stabilization on the Alaska Pipeline and heat recovery systems are a few of the examples shown. (dePo)
Heat pipes in space and on earth
Waermerohr im Raum und auf der Erde
AIAA-Papers ; 1-4
1978
4 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 10 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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