Design and Performance of the Cryogenic Flexible Diode Heat Pipe (CRYOFD) Flight Experiment.

Abstract

The first space flight cryogenic flexible diode heat pipes were developed and verified under micro-gravity conditions on the Space Shuttle during STS-94 (July 1997) and the previous, minimum mission STS-83 (March 1997). The heat pipe working fluids were oxygen (with an operating range of 60 to 145 K) and niethane (95 - 175 K). The heat pipes were verified as part of the Cryogenic Flexible Diode Beat Pipe (CRYOFD) flight experiment. CRYOFD was the third and fourth flights of the Hitchhiker based Cryogenic Test Bed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA373637

Entities

People

  • Dave Glaister
  • Lee Thienel
  • Matt Buchko
  • Michael R. Lewis
  • Patrick J. Brennan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Energy
  • Heat Pipes
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Phase Change Materials
  • Pipes
  • Space Flight
  • Space Shuttles
  • Space Systems
  • Space Transportation
  • Spacecraft
  • Steady State
  • Temperature Control
  • Test Beds

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers