Search Results

This paper presents the COMmercial Experiment Transporter (COMET) Service Module thermal control system design using a Capillary Pumped Loop (CPL). The COMET satellite is scheduled for launch in early 1993 aboard the Conestoga rocket. COMET provides the United States commercial research and development community with a dependable and economical means to access space. The COMET program is defined and funded by the NASA Centers for the Commercial Development of Space (CCDS). The Center for Space Transportation and Applied Research (CSTAR) was given the authority to establish and implement the COMET Program. COMET is designed to carry experiments to the micro-gravity of space and return one of two modules back to Earth. COMET provides basic utilities such as electric power, a tightly controlled thermal environment, attitude control, data management and communications while in orbit. COMET is a two part Free Flyer, which will carry experiments into a low Earth orbit.