Authors: Zheng Cui Feng Luo NaiHua Wang Lin Cheng
Publish Date: 2013/09/06
Volume: 56, Issue: 10, Pages: 2553-2562
Abstract
Since its installation on the International Space Station ISS in midMay 2011 the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS has spent over two years on orbit fully operational collecting an enormous amount of data including the temperatures from the onboard 1118 sensors for thermal control A large database is continuously updated and analyzed to understand the thermal behavior of the experiment in the space environment and its interaction with the ISS This paper specifies the design building analysis and testing of the thermal control system and its various components for an overview of the AMS thermal control system and its space environment Also given are some examples of analysis and correlation of the space environmental and ISS parameters with the thermal behaviors of various AMS components
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