Demonstration of a plug-and-play approach to spacecraft thermal control system design

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 969, Issue , 2008, Pages 21-28

  Maxwell, Eric B ^a   Cole, Gregory S ^a   Scaringe, Robert P ^a   Didion, Jeffrey ^b  

^a MAINSTREAM ENGINEERING CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat pump; Heat rejection; Rover; Spacecraft thermal control

Indexed keywords

EID: 72349086665     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2844970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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