Speaker
Pedro Argente Hernández
Description
Latest generation of active antennas designs are demanding low thermal gradients and low volume (specially for LEO designs). Additive manufacturing introduces high flexibility to fulfil these main requirements, the 2-phase thermal component can be directly manufactured in the system to refrigerate, improving the thermal behaviour and increasing the level of integration in the system.
A trade-off for an active antenna refrigeration is presented, introducing the different TMM and processes required to validate the design. Different designs and coupons are presented in order to validate future works in the development of this vapour chamber design.
