Application of Thermally Isolating Payloads from Bus for Vehicle Thermal Testing
Abstract
The Aerospace Corporation has recently investigated common spacecraft architectures and designs to increase customer flexibility in reconfiguring payloads suites in space. These studies determined that a near-adiabatic payload-bus thermal interface is an optimal choice for meeting enhanced program and mission requirements. This report adds to these discussions by focusing on how a near-adiabatic payload-bus interface design impacts subsystem and vehicle integration and testing, and the results showed several advantages over current single line flow integration, including: Simplified and improved integration and thermal testing, Cost savings from reduced vehicle-level testing, Better test effectiveness and requirements verification during thermal testing, and Elimination of the vehicle-level thermal vacuum testing.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 08, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1189422
Entities
People
- John W. Welch
Organizations
- The Aerospace Corporation