Cosmic RAy Telescope for the Effects of Radiation

CRaTER Pre-Ship Review(I-PSR)

Thermal AnalysisChristine Cottingham LM/GSFC 545

Hume Peabody GSFC 545

January 3-4, 2008

Cosmic RAy Telescope for the Effects of Radiation

Overview

• Pre-test Analysis

• Balance Test Setup / Flight Environment versus Test Setup

• Balance Test Temperatures

• Balance Testing versus Temperature Cycling Testing

• Thermal Model Correlation

• Forward Plan / Work To Be Done

• Conclusions

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Pre Test Analysis

• Hume Peabody of NASA GSFC made Thermal Desktop Model in Test Configuration

• Made pre-test predictions

• Verified mounting plate heater was adequate

CRaTER / TV chamber model

CRaTER model with top removed

CRaTER model

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Balance Test Setup

• CRaTER was mounted to a ½” thick aluminum plate in the shape of the flight mounting surface

– The radiator side of the mounting plate was black anodize and it looked at the bottom of the chamber shroud

• 12 Thermocouples were installed on the external surfaces of the instrument and mounting surface

• Flight like blankets were installed on the instrument (3mil Kapton facing out)– Apertures had 1 layer GBK

– Flight blankets will have GBK outer layer (Kapton has same emissivity as GBK)

• Chamber temperature was run at ambient temperatures for hot case and LN2 temperatures for cold and survival cases

– In cold and survival the heaters on the mounting plate held the plate at -30°C and -40°C respectively

– Telescope hot case environmental radiation sinks were 21°C verses flight effective radiation sinks of -1°C for –Z and 23°C for +Z

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Balance Test Setup

Cosmic RAy Telescope for the Effects of Radiation

Balance Test Temperatures (°C)

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Balance Test Temperatures (°C) vs Thermal Cycle Temperatures

Issue: Does the TV cycle bound the ICD temperature limits by at least 10°C?

• Yes for Hot Case: • The hot balance interface temperature ran ~4°C warmer than flight temperature limits due to test setup

• Pretty Close for Cold Case:• The cold TV cycle telescope temperature was 7°C colder than flight temperatures and all other temperatures were 10°C or better• Orbiter flight predicts have about 10°C margin to limits for CRaTER interface• A waiver will be written against this one temperature and should have no trouble being approved because of the low risk involved

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Balance Test TemperaturesCRaTER Temperatures

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12/5/074:48

12/5/079:36

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12/6/074:48

12/6/079:36

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12/6/0719:12

Time

Temperature (degC)

104(C)

105(C)

106(C)

107(C)

101(C)

102(C)

103(C)

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Balance Test TemperaturesCRaTER Mounting Surface Temperature

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12/6/0719:12

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Temperature (degC)

109(C)

108(C)

110(C)

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Thermal Model Correlation

Cosmic RAy Telescope for the Effects of Radiation

Thermal Model Correlation

• Original thermal model vs test temperature was up to 4°C different

• After correlation most points are within 2°C and two hot case points to within 3°C

• Two things were changed to the thermal model to correlate it to test data– MLI effective emissivity was changed from 0.03 to 0.01

– Conductance from the feet to the mounting surface was reduced by 50%

• Need to verify PRT temperature in cold balance case– Doesn’t match near by flight telemetry

– Flight telemetry was a little noisy

Cosmic RAy Telescope for the Effects of Radiation

Forward Plan / Work to be Done

• Include in the model where and how power changes in the instrument as the voltage changes

– 27.0 VDC = > 6.4 watts

– 31.0 VDC = > 6.6 watts

– 35.0 VDC = > 6.9 watts

• Model in the important components on the boards– To ensure limits are met

– To make the flight telemetry predictable

• Develop reduced thermal model

• Publish Thermal Acceptance Package (joint MIT/GSFC task)

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Conclusions

• Thermal RFAs have been submitted for closure

• A waiver will be written for the TV cycle telescope temperature margin to limits

• Thermal model has been correlated (both GSFC and MIT)

• Work to be done is understood

• The thermal performance of CRaTER is understood and is acceptable

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