An Integrated Thermal Chain for Systems and Equipment Design

The usual concern of an industrial company involved in a competition environment is to produce at lower cost and in shorter time while preserving a high quality standard.

Because of this, particular attention must be paid to thermal analyses which in the space industry are very time and effort consuming tasks, and have been suffering for long of a lack of an efficient software analysis tool.

This paper shows how an integrated thermal chain designed at the same time on the basis of operational tools and of the most recent hardware and software improvements can tackle this problem, opening new outlooks for thermal engineering for building innovative space systems.