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.


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    Title :

    Thermal Design, Testing and Firing Control Strategy of the Liquid Apogee Engine and Thermal Shield Assembly for the ITALSAT Spacecraft


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 1990



    Publication date :

    1990-07-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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