Heat Pipes
- High capacity in small package
- Preliminary feasibility study complete
- Flat geometries
- Sample heat pipe geometry successfully manufactured
- Detailed design phase just beginning
- Predict heat pipe performance
- Evaluate designs
- Porosity and sealant
- Filling apparatus
Copper Enhanced Face Sheets
- Excellent bonding between copper and aluminum
- Copper tapes can be interspersed throughout a layer to anisotropically enhance conductivity
- Copper patch embedded beneath component acts as a doubler
