ATV THERMAL CONTROL: Architecture and Jules Verne First Flight Results

2009-01-2474

07/12/2009

Event
International Conference On Environmental Systems
Authors Abstract
Content
After several years of development the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) developed by ESA called Jules Verne completed successfully its seven-month ISS logistics mission. Launched the 9 March 2008 on an Ariane 5 launcher, the ATV performed the 3 April 2008 its rendezvous and docking to the International Space Station to which it remained attached for five months.
This paper presents in a first part the ATV thermal control architecture based on a innovative active thermal control design built around 40 Variable Conductance Heat Pipes (VCHP) controlling the heat rejection and in a second part the in-flight thermal control behavior of the ATV Jules Verne observed during the seven months mission in both free flight and attached to ISS phases.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-2474
Pages
14
Citation
Oger, P., Vincent, P., Guyot, J., and Bouckaert, F., "ATV THERMAL CONTROL: Architecture and Jules Verne First Flight Results," SAE Technical Paper 2009-01-2474, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-2474.
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Published
Jul 12, 2009
Product Code
2009-01-2474
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English