ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH SATELLITES FOR SPACE PROPULSION SYSTEMS EXPERIMENTS.

Abstract

This quarterly report covers the progress for the development, fabrication, test, and delivery of Environmental Research Satellites for in-space propulsion systems experiments. Two spacecraft will be built for the friction experiment and two spacecraft for the zero g heat transfer experiment. The first units of each experiment will be designated the prototypes. The flight units will be launched as subsatellites from a primary launch mission. The friction experiment is concerned with the broadening of knowledge with surface friction in the space environment. The experiment can contribute to the understanding of surface friction processes in the combined environment of space vacuum and radiation. The zero g heat transfer experiment is concerned with the influence of change of gravitational acceleration on heat transfer coefficients in the various transfer regimes and heating rates at which transitions between these regimes occur. The low g heat transfer data obtained may be applied in the design of systems involving heat transfer to volumes of fluid as typically occurs in tankage. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0801699

Entities

People

  • H. T. Sliff
  • J. M. Robinson
  • R. L. Hammel

Organizations

  • TRW Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Coefficients
  • Electric Propulsion
  • Environment
  • Friction
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Space Environments
  • Space Propulsion
  • Spacecraft

Readers

  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Satellites