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Unlocking the Potential of Small Satellites: TheMIS's Active Cooling Technology on the SpIRIT Mission by del Castillo, Miguel Ortiz; Therakam, Clint; McRobbie, Jack; Woods, Andrew; Mearns, Robert; Barraclough, Simon; Catsamas, Stephen; Ohkawa, Mika; Morgan, Jonathan; Chapman, Airlie; Trenti, Michele is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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The Thermal Management Integrated System (TheMIS) is a key element of the Australia-Italy Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) mission, launched in a 510km Polar Sun-Synchronous orbit in December 2023. SpIRIT is a 6U CubeSat led by The University of Melbourne in cooperation with ASI, with support from ASA and with contributions from Australian space industry and international research organizations. The TheMIS subsystem actively cools and controls the temperature of sensitive instruments, increasing the potential range of payloads supported on small spacecraft systems. TheMIS core functionality is based on a commercial Stirling Cycle Cryocooler in-principle capable of reaching cold-tip temperatures below T=100K. The cooler is operated by customized control electronics and is connected to deployable radiators through pyrolytic graphite sheet thermal straps, all developed by the University of Melbourne. Until now, this level of thermal control has been relatively uncommon in nanosatellites. TheMIS aims to validate the design and performance by controlling the thermal environment of SpIRIT's HERMES payload, an X-ray instrument provided by ASI which has a noise backgr

Author

del Castillo, Miguel Ortiz; Therakam, Clint; McRobbie, Jack; Woods, Andrew; Mearns, Robert; Barraclough, Simon; Catsamas, Stephen; Ohkawa, Mika; Morgan, Jonathan; Chapman, Airlie; Trenti, Michele

Published

2024

Language

EN