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This paper reports a development of a εH measurement system. The system has been evaluated by comparing the measurement data with the data, which were obtained by conventional reliable techniques in the laboratory. From the evaluation results it was confirmed that the measurement accuracies of the present systems is Δε = ±0.05. Now this system is being improved for higher measurement accuracy, and it will be commercialized in 2007.

The feasibility study of the thermal control system for medium size or large size satellites was conducted to investigate the capabilities and specifications of devices such as cold plates, a radiator, a mechanical pump, and so on. In the first step of the system development demonstration, the cold plate was selected to investigate the performance among these devices. In this paper, the system concept of the advanced single-phase fluid loop and the evaluation by numerical analysis and experiments are described.

An onboard simultaneous measuring method of solar absorptance αS and total hemispherical emittance εH for thermal control materials is proposed. This method allows to determine αS and εH simultaneously by giving different levels of input power to a sheet heater attached to the sample, and there is no need to use the values of the mass or the specific heat of the sample materials for the data reduction. In order to verify this method on the ground, the parameters αS and εH are measured for three kinds of thermal control materials.