HiPeR-AdPack Technology Development

HiPeR (High performance Radiator) technology is a high performance, low cost, customizable and easily installable flexible film technology, based on pyrolytic graphite sheets. The objective of the proposed activity is to apply this technology (AdPack) in or on electronic boxes for satellites of launchers.

AdPack aims at both directly cooling components to the box structure and increasing the thermal conductivity of the box structure itself. By doing so the heat path of the component to the baseplate of the box will be improved by approximately 30%. To this end the following products are to be developed: HiPeR  AdPack Strap to be applied as thermal interface between component and structure HiPeR  AdPack doubler to be applied as directly to the structure to enhance its heat rejection capability. The key characteristics of these products are: low cost, low mass, low complexity, high conductivity, highly adaptable and not constraining the AIT process. ; The list of tasks that will be addressed in this activity are broken down as follows: Trade-off between the best configuration to be implemented at equipment and component level: Strap, doubler clamped or bonded to the structure/component; Test definition: Defining a preliminary thermal calculation model and set of requirements; Manufacturing the test setup: power units, base plate, clamps ;and assembly of the HiPeR; - Tests and thermal simulation;