Used to investigate and qualify the thermal performance of advanced two-phase devices.
Capabilities
- Investigate/qualify thermal performance of advanced two-phase devices:
- Heat pipes
- Capillary Pumped Loops (CPLs)
- Phase-Change Materials (PCMs)
- Develop and demonstrate new concepts to improve heat capacity, weight, and size of future thermal control systems
Facilities
- CPL/LHP testbeds
- CPL3 Development loop
- CPL metal wick test loop
- Sol-Gel loop heat pipe
- NRL (nickel wick) loop heat pipe
- Advanced-CPL (A-CPL) demonstration testbed
- Wick test station
- CPL/LHP charging station
- Thermal vacuum chambers