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Lightweight radiator system for a spacecraft
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Mason, Georgia Copeland, Robert J. Weislogel, Mark M. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Description | Three documents describe various aspects of a proposed lightweight, deployable radiator system for dissipating excess heat from the life-support system of a habitable spacecraft. The first document focuses on a radiator tube that would include a thin metal liner surrounded and supported by a thicker carbon-fiber-reinforced composite tubular structure that, in turn, would be formed as part of a unitary composite radiator-fin structure consisting mostly of a sheet of reticulated vitreous carbon laminated between carbon-fiber-reinforced face sheets. The thermal and mechanical properties, including the anisotropies, of the component materials are taken into account in the design. The second document describes thermo-structural bumpers, in the form of exterior multiple-ply carbon-fiber sheets enclosing hollows on opposite sides of a radiator fin, which would protect the radiator tube against impinging micrometeors and orbital debris. The third document describes a radiator system that would include multiple panels containing the aforementioned components, among others. The system would also include mechanisms for deploying the panels from compact stowage. Deployment would not involve breaking and remaking of fluid connections to the radiator panels. |
| File Size | 136575 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110016452 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6f23xf7p |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2005-12-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Man/system Technology And Life Support Panels Life Support Systems Carbon Fibers Space Debris Spacecraft Radiators Micrometeoroids Mechanical Properties Fins Manned Spacecraft Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |