Open AccessUsing Loop Heat Pipes to Minimize Survival Heater Power for NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster Power Processing Units
Author(s) -
Michael K. Choi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
7th international energy conversion engineering conference
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.2514/6.2017-4697
Subject(s) - power (physics) , xenon , loop (graph theory) , aerospace engineering , nuclear engineering , mechanical engineering , environmental science , engineering , automotive engineering , computer science , physics , thermodynamics , mathematics , atomic physics , combinatorics
BAT = Burst Alert Telescope CC = compensation chamber CCHP = constant conductance heat pipe EM = engineering model LHP = loop heat pipe MLI = multi-layer insulation NEXT = NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster NEXT-C = NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-commercial NSTAR = NASA’s Solar Electric Propulsion Technology Application Readiness PPU = power processing unit VCHP = variable conductance heat pipe
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