ATV THERMAL CONTROL: Architecture and Jules Verne First Flight Results
2009-01-2474
07/12/2009
- Event
- 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.
- 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.