This paper describes the performance benefits and current technology progress of an active heat pump loop (HPL) thermal control bus for spacecraft and planetary thermal control applications. Having ...

Accurate and stable temperature control is necessary for effectively using many thermally sensitive components and sensors, such as semiconductor lasers and optical detectors. An industry has grown up ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 103, Section 1: JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE (1994), pp. 1658-1667 (10 pages) The Capillary Pumped Loop Flight Experiment (CAPL) is a prototype of the Earth Observing System (EOS) ...

Thermoelectric coolers (TECs) based on the Peltier effect can be used for general cooling, but more often they’re applied to maintain a precise temperature for subsystems and components. And unlike ...

Accurate and cost-effective sensing of the temperature to be controlled. Closure of the feedback loop between temperatures sensor and heat and/or cooling source with control circuitry, including both ...