When humans live and work in extreme conditions, vital resource must be managed with extreme care. International Space Station (ISS) today, Moon and Mars surface outposts tomorrow provide an inspiring approach for new ...

Life support systems for Mars exploration space suits will face challenging requirements for heat rejection. These systems must be light weight, compact, rugged, make minimal use of consumables, and have low impact on the ...

Based on current technological advancements and forecasts, nanosatellites will be used for both scientific and defense applications leveraging advantages on both development cost and development lifecycle. As nanosatellites ...

A Reversible Thermal Panel (RTP) is a flexible re-deployable radiator that autonomously controls the temperature of a heat source. It promotes heat dissipation by deploying the radiator surface when the heat source is at ...

METimage is a multispectral imaging optical instrument with a wide coverage realized by a scanning design. It is part of the instrument suite on satellite-type A of the Metrological Operational Satellite –Second Generation ...

Water conservation is an essential requirement for future exploration space suits. Lithium Chloride Absorber Radiator (LCAR) technology has been developed to meet this requirement by rejecting heat without venting water ...

From the launchers to the spacecrafts, various on-board systems have to be maintained within specified temperature limits. Phase Change Materials (PCM) offer the possibility to store thermal energy directly as latent heat ...

The Polar Mesospheric Cloud Turbulence experiment (PMC Turbo) is intended to observe and quantify the dynamics of small-scale gravity waves and instabilities in the upper mesosphere. The instruments aboard a stratospheric ...

Radiators for manned spacecraft, satellites, planetary rovers and unmanned spacecraft are typically sized for the highest power at the hottest sink conditions, so they are oversized and prone to freezing at low sink ...

For years the use of variable emissivity devices and coatings has been envisaged by the academic and industrials space actors. The aim is to overcome the drawback specific to constant thermo-optical coatings with regard ...