Speaker
Mr
Jan Klement
(Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG)
Description
Radiator degradation in orbit is of interest as it is one of the main drivers for the radiator sizing. Information from ground testing and LEO flight samples are abundantly available but not for GEO S/C. With 7 years of telemetry data from a radiator dedicated to the Laser Communication Terminal at the GEO satellite Alphasat insights into solar absorptivity increase of the radiator’s surface are available.
Primary author
Mr
Jan Klement
(Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG)
Co-authors
Ms
Karen Saucke
(Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG)
Mr
Thomas Marynowski
(Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG)
Mr
Edoardo Benzi
(European Space Agency - ESA)
