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Heat Transfer Tubes/Radiators

Axial Grooved Heat Pipes

  • Purpose: Thermal control of spacecraft equipment.
  • Year of release: 1996
  • Guaranteed service life (years): 25 years after AGHP filling with working fluid.
  • Estimated production / delivery time (months): 2
  • Flight qualification of the product: Yes
  • Brief history of flight qualification: Operated successfully on board of more than 100 Russian and foreign satellites.
  • Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements: Yes
ParameterValue
Maximum transferred heat power450 W·m
Outer diameter6-20 mm
Lengthup to 3.5 m or 6m by a special order
Operation temperature rangefrom -133 C to 227 C
Minimum pipe bending radius5 outer diameters of pipe
Two-phase (vapor/liquid) hermetic closed evaporating/ condensing thermal transfer system filled with a working fluid (Toluene, Ammonia, Propylene, Ethane, Methane, Nitrogen) of straight or bent configuration.