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Description
Loop Heat pipe is an efficient heat transfer system based on the liquid-vapor phase change phenomena. A LHP consists of an evaporator, a condenser, a compensation chamber (also called reservoir), and transport lines. For many years, EHP/Airbus have implemented several developments, in collaboration with product users, to simplify and robustify its application and improve its performances: start-up, inhibition, characterization of ground vs flight performances, subcooling improvement, spacecraft environment impact.
Nowadays, Airbus & EHP collaborates with Thales Alenia Space on new R&D projects, in order to become an European leader on LHP products.
The following presentation provides a concise overview of the last developments and tests realised on LHP² in order to have a product available on the shelves and easy to integrate from S/C system perspective:
- Start-up mastering
- Performance improvement and regulation at equipment level
- E/W radiator application using LHP for telecommunication satellite
- Deployable radiator with LHP
- LHP heritage : on ground, in orbit and future satellite mission
