Development of NASA's Sample Cartridge Assembly : Design, Thermal Analysis, and Testing

Author:: Hernandez, Deborah
Published:: July 12, 2015.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Duffy, James and O'Connor, Brian

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NASA's Sample Cartridge Assembly (SCA) project is responsible for designing and validating a payload that contains a materials research sample in a sealed environment. The SCA will be heated in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Low Gradient Furnace (LGF) that is housed inside the Material Science Research Rack (MSRR) located in the International Space Station (ISS). Sintered metals and crystal growth experiments in microgravity are examples of some of the types of materials research that may be performed with a SCA. The project's approach has been to use thermal models to guide the SCA through several design iterations. Various layouts of the SCA components were explored to meet the science and engineering requirements, and testing has been done to help prove the design. This paper will give an overview of the SCA design. It will show how thermal analysis is used to support the project. Also some testing that has been completed will also be discussed, including changes that were made to the thermal profile used during brazing.

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Document ID: 20150016503.
M15-4626.
International Conference on Environmental Systems; 12-16 Jul. 2015; Bellevue, WA; United States.

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