Thermal Engineering Branch Projects

Thermal Technology Development Flights

• Technology Development Group Projects & Flight Experiments
• Capillary Pumped Loop 2 (CAPL 2) on STS69
• Capillary Pumped Loop 3 (CAPL 3) on STS108)
• Cryogenic Flexible Diode Flight Experiment (CRYOFD) on STS83 and STS92
• Cryogenic Heat Pipe Flight Experiment (CRYOHP) on STS53
• Space Heat Pipe/Cryogenic Two-Phase Flight Experiment (CRYOTP) on STS62
• Cryogenic Thermal Storage Unit (CRYOTSU) on STS95
• Environmental Verification Experiment for the Explorer Platform(EVEEP)
• Heat Pipe Performance Flight ExperimentsHPP onSTS52 and STS66
• Return Flux Experiment (REFLEX) STS72
• Thermal Energy Management Processes 2A-3 (TEMP2A-3) on STS46
• Two-Phase Flow Experiment (TPF) on STS85

Other Missions Supported by the Thermal Engineering Branch

• GSFC Flight Projects Directorate
• Constellation X-Ray Mission
• CONTOUR
• Earth Observing System (EOS)
  • EOS AM-1 (Terra)
  • EOS AM-2
  • EOS PM-1 (Aqua)
  • EOS Chemistry (Aura)
• Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) program
  • Vegetation Canopy Lidar Mission
  • SOLar STellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE) (a non-NASA site)
• Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS), an instrument on the Ice Cloud and Elevation Satellite (ICESat) spacecraft
• Loop Heat Pipe for GLAS
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST)
• Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) missions I - Q
• Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
• Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite(ICESAT)
• Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope
• ISA LAB (Instrument System Analysis)
• Isotope Magnet Experiment (ISOMAX), a cosmic-ray instrument flown by high-altitude balloon.

Other Missions Supported by the Thermal Engineering Branch
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• JWST (James Webb Space Telescope)
• LandSat 7 (launched April 1999)
• Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) which studied the effects on various materials of exposure to space.
• Medium Explorer Missions (MIDEX)
  • Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)
  • Low Energy Neutral Atom (LENA) imager on the IMAGE spacecraft
• Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) on the Mars Global Surveyor
• Magenetospheric Multi-scale
• New Millennium Program, a NASA program to test new technologies on spacecraft
  • Earth Observing-1 (EO-1), with Carbon-Carbon panels
  • Earth Observing-3 (EO-3) with advanced cryogenic cooling
  • Space Technology-5 (ST-5) with Variable emittance coatings
• NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), where NPOESS stands for National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
• Polar Operational Environmental Satellites
• Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager RHESSI
• Small Explorer Program (SMEX)
  • Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) (launched December 1998)
  • Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) (launched April 1998)
  • Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) (launched February 1999)
• SAC-C, part of the Global Environmental & Earth Science Information System (GENESIS) program
• SPARTAN Project (208,400,401,251,402,ASCE) (SPARTANs were free-flying instruments launched and retrieved by the Space Shuttle. According to one source, the acronym stands for Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for AstroNomy
• SSBUV
• Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED)
• Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)
• TopHat, a balloon payload for studying the cosmic microwave background
• Triana
• Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
• UNEX
• UltraViolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) (a non-NASA link), an instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
• X-Ray Detection System (XDS), an instrument on the Astro-E spacecraft