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.
A variable conductance heat pipe flight experiment - Performance in space
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Thermophysics Conference ; 1975 ; Denver, CO
1975-05-01
Conference paper
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English
A variable conductance heat-pipe flight experiment
AIAA | 1971
|A variable conductance heat-pipe flight experiment
NTRS | 1971
|A Variable Conductance Heat-Pipe Flight Experiment
AIAA | 1972
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