Program start date is on hold until Space Act Agreement is signed. Placeholder date of January 2014 is used as placeholder.
Resilient Thermal Panel is a solution for thermal bus resiliency. It has little parasitic mass, it increases satellite lifetime, and it reduces the need for heater power. The goal of this project is to validate performance of structurally embedded two dimensional heat pipe. The potential users of this experiment are MilSatCom, GPS, SBIRS, NRO, Space Superiority, and NASA.
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