Conveners
Thermal Design: Thermal Design
- Moritz Branco
Thermal Design
- Paolo Ruzza (ESA)
Thermal Design: Thermal Design
- Marc Broussely (ESA)
CoCa is visible light range imager onboard the Comet Interceptor spacecraft. Its objective is to provide color imaging of a comet, at a resolution sufficient to determine its structure and homogeneity. The launch is planned in 2029.
A brief introduction to the Comet Interceptor mission is presented, followed by a description of the CoCa thermal design.
The requirements to the CoCa thermal...
The Columbus Ka band terminal (ColKa) is a communication system, currently installed outside the ISS, that connects the Columbus laboratory and the European Data Relay Satellite system. It enhanced the existing Columbus on-orbit and ground communication systems and created an additional bi-directional Ka band data transmission for the ISS.
The communications system electronics, provided by...
JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. With its launch in April 2023 and the arrival at Jupiter in 2031, it will spend at least three years making detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. The JUICE spacecraft carries the most powerful remote...
An overview of the nuclear propulsion for space applications will be presented with a particular focus on thermal challenges. Both Nuclear thermal Propulsion and Nuclear Electric Propulsion will be detailed also providing few concepts for future missions and technical thermal challenges to be overcome to reach mission readiness.
The in-flight evolution of thermo-optical properties of thermal coatings is of great concern when defining the thermal control system (TCS) of spacecraft. Experience (in-flight measurements and aging tests in laboratory) demonstrates that the parameter really affected by the in-orbit aging is the solar absorptivity, which often increases when coatings are under space environment conditions. To...
The ESA EnVision will determine the nature and current state of Venus' geological evolution and its relationship with the atmosphere, to understand how and why Venus and Earth evolved so differently.Perched at the inner edge of the habitable zone, Venus may once have been habitable, with liquid water oceans, before developing the enormous greenhouse warming which renders it uninhabitable...
Arquimea Space recently developed a Heat Pipes and Radiators Assembly (HPRA) for the 3MI Instrument (Leonardo S.p.A., Campi Bisenzio site) onboard MetOp SG satellite (Airbus DS, ESA).
Arquimea Space was in charge of the design, manufacturing, verification and testing of this HPRA, following the corresponding specifications from The Leonardo Company. Six models have been produced and delivered...
The Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) is part of ESA’s Sentinel Expansion missions and is a complex system involving a satellite platform, a rotating microwave radiometer and a deployable mesh reflector. The purpose of the mission is to monitor and provide information on Earth’s water surfaces, by gathering radiometric data on sea surface temperature, sea-ice concentration and...
