Infrared Technology, Volume. 47, Issue 8, 972(2025)

Experiment Verification of Radiant Cooling System of Space Telescope Based on Loop Heat Pipe

Jialiang YANG1,2, Yong HUANG1、*, and Liang GUO1
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  • 1Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130033, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    To achieve omnidirectional observation, space telescopes typically require multiple attitude changes. However, such attitude changes lead to complex and variable external heat flows, which are highly detrimental to the heat dissipation of spacecraft instruments. Loop heat pipes are widely used in the aerospace field as components capable of long-distance, high-power heat transfer. For a space telescope equipped with several distributed instruments and operating with a total power consumption of up to 1300 W, multiple loop heat pipes, each 20 m in length and with a maximum heat transfer capacity of 400 W, were used for heat dissipation. Test results demonstrated that the loop heat pipes could transfer 400 W with a temperature difference of 13℃, effectively solving the challenge of unified heat management for distributed heat sources in spacecraft.

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    YANG Jialiang, HUANG Yong, GUO Liang. Experiment Verification of Radiant Cooling System of Space Telescope Based on Loop Heat Pipe[J]. Infrared Technology, 2025, 47(8): 972

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    Received: Jan. 31, 2023

    Accepted: Sep. 15, 2025

    Published Online: Sep. 15, 2025

    The Author Email: HUANG Yong (huangyong@ciomp.ac.cn)

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