A failure during the Liquid Apogee Engine (LAE) firing with Thermal Shield, forced Selenia Spazio to critically review the thermal design concept of the LAE/Shield Assembly of ITALSAT Program.This review led to: This Paper describes the performed efforts and the resulting engineering considerations.
Thermal Design, Testing and Firing Control Strategy of the Liquid Apogee Engine and Thermal Shield Assembly for the ITALSAT Spacecraft
Sae Technical Papers
International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 1990
1990-07-01
Conference paper
English
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