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MELFI Thermal Characterization and Verification from Subsystem to System
Technical Paper
2001-01-2222
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The Minus Eighty degrees Celsius Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) will be the first freezer to be delivered to NASA as Laboratory Support Equipment (LSE) by ESA. Among the MELFI thermal requirements, the rapid freezing of samples to a required temperature and the low power consumption that limits MELFI performance during re-cooling phases after power off, are ones of the most critical. This paper will present the thermal activities, which led both to a verification of those requirements and to a complete thermal characterization of MELFI.
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Cheganças, J. and Le Gall, V., "MELFI Thermal Characterization and Verification from Subsystem to System," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-2222, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-2222.Also In
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- MELFI providing the Ground – Space Station −80°C cold chain Humbert P. Cheganças J. Perarnaud D. Andersen T. 50th IAF Amsterdam, NL October 1999
- Qualification of the MELFI Cryocooler to be used in the International Space Station Aubry C. Crespi P. Guichard J. Gougeon L. ICES Toulouse, France July 2000
- MELFI Cooling Performance Characterization and Verification Colangelo, G. De Parolis M. N. Jimenez J. ICES Toulouse, France July 2000