Thermal Ground Testing of Loop Heat Pipes for PACE OCI

Date

7/10/2022

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51st International Conference on Environmental Systems

Abstract

A pair of propylene Loop Heat Pipes (LHP) designed for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) was tested in two configurations: flat (minimize the influence of gravity) and flight (bent/final configuration). The testing was conducted in the thermal vacuum chamber at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center facility. The test results are presented along with the lessons learned.

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Sergey Semenov, NASA/GSFC, US
Deepak Patel, NASA/GSFC, US
Triem Hoang, TTH Research, US
Christopher Stull, Lentech, Inc, US
ICES201: Two-Phase Thermal Control Technology
The 51st International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US, on 10 July 2022 through 14 July 2022.

Keywords

Loop Heat Pipe, Ocean Color Instrument, Propylene LHP, NASA/GSFC

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