The Ames Heat Pipe Experiment (AHPE) is a variable conductance heat pipe/radiator system which was launched aboard the OAO-C spacecraft in August, 1972. All available flight data was reviewed and those from a few orbits were selected for correlation with predictions from an analytical model of the system. The principal conclusion of this study is that gas controlled variable conductance heat pipes can perform reliably for long time periods in the space environment and can effectively provide temperature stabilization for spacecraft electronics. Furthermore, the performance of such systems can be adequately predicted using existing analysis tools.


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    Title :

    A variable conductance heat pipe flight experiment - Performance in space


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Thermophysics Conference ; 1975 ; Denver, CO


    Publication date :

    1975-05-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    A variable conductance heat pipe flight experiment - Performance in space

    WANOUS, D. / MARCUS, B. / KIRKPATRICK, J. | AIAA | 1975


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