Space Station Body Mounted Radiator Design
871507
07/01/1987
- Event
- Content
- Consideration has been given to utilizing the external area of the Space Station common modules or resource nodes to provide heat rejection. A program was undertaken to define the best body mounted radiator design, to define and build a full size test article and to conduct testing to verify performance.Trade studies were conducted and a preferred design selected. The selected design employed high performance grooved heat pipes of an off-the-shelf design. Twenty panels, each about 1.2 m wide by 5.6 m long are installed on each module rejecting a total of about 12 kW. The radiators are interfaced with the module thermal control loop by use of a refrigerant 21 loop with an on-orbit operable disconnect at each panel. A one-panel test article has been designed and is currently being fabricated. Testing is scheduled to be conducted in June of 1987.
- Pages
- 8
- Citation
- Fleming, M., and Duschatko, R., "Space Station Body Mounted Radiator Design," SAE Technical Paper 871507, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/871507.