Spacecraft Thermal Control (woodhead Publishing In Mechanical Engineering)
by Jose Meseguer /
2012 / English / PDF
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Thermal control is what allows a satellite to maintain its
temperature within set parameters during its lifetime. It covers
a very wide temperature range, from the cryogenic level (-270
degrees C) to high-temperature thermal protection systems (more
than 2000 degrees C).
Thermal control is what allows a satellite to maintain its
temperature within set parameters during its lifetime. It covers
a very wide temperature range, from the cryogenic level (-270
degrees C) to high-temperature thermal protection systems (more
than 2000 degrees C).
The authors, with their extensive experience in aerospace
engineering, provide detailed chapters on how to design a Space
Thermal Control System comprehensively. They begin with an
overview of the basic and specific concepts of a space mission,
its development phases, the environment it must withstand, the
orbits and trajectories needed to accomplish the mission and the
subsystems that help to achieve this, before moving on to explain
the fundamentals of heat transfer. The concluding two
sections focus on the numerous technologies that can be employed
in the thermal control subsystem and the formal aspects of
spacecraft development, specifically the design, analysis and
testing.
The authors, with their extensive experience in aerospace
engineering, provide detailed chapters on how to design a Space
Thermal Control System comprehensively. They begin with an
overview of the basic and specific concepts of a space mission,
its development phases, the environment it must withstand, the
orbits and trajectories needed to accomplish the mission and the
subsystems that help to achieve this, before moving on to explain
the fundamentals of heat transfer. The concluding two
sections focus on the numerous technologies that can be employed
in the thermal control subsystem and the formal aspects of
spacecraft development, specifically the design, analysis and
testing.
