TASEC-Lab: A COTS-based CubeSat-like university experiment for characterizing the convective heat transfer in stratospheric balloon missions
| Autor: | David González-Bárcena, Lilian Peinado-Pérez, Alejandro Fernández-Soler, Ángel Grover Pérez-Muñoz, Jose Miguel Álvarez-Romero, Fernando Ayape, Jonathan Martín, Juan Bermejo-Ballesteros, Ángel Luis Porras-Hermoso, Daniel Alfonso-Corcuera, Sergio Marín-Coca, Manú Soto-Aranaz, Blanca Boado-Cuartero, Rafael Garcia-Romero, Santiago Pindado, Javier Pérez-Álvarez, Juan Zamorano, Ignacio Torralbo, Javier Piqueras, Isabel Pérez-Grande, Ángel Sanz-Andrés |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Acta Astronautica, ISSN 0094-5765, 2022-07, Vol. 196, No. July Archivo Digital UPM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Popis: | The Thermal Analysis Support and Environment Characterization Laboratory (TASEC-Lab) is an experiment designed, integrated, and tested in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid by bachelor's, master's and doctoral students. The aim of this project is to study the convection heat transfer, the thermal environment and the balloon dynamics during the ascent and float phases of a stratospheric balloon launched from the León (Spain) airfield on 16th, July 2021. TASEC-Lab has been designed following the CubeSat philosophy using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. It consists of an aluminium structure of 130 × 130 × 330 mm3 with three compartments where the Electrical Power Subsystem, the Electronics, and the Heat Transfer Laboratory, are located. In addition, it carries a cup anemometer to be tested at the low-pressure conditions at high altitude to provide the relative speed of the balloon-gondola system in order to characterize the dynamics and the forced convection heat transfer. In this paper, the TASEC-Lab design is detailed as well as the different development phases considered in a university environment where all tasks were carried out by students, with the technical support of the research staff of the Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad “Ignacio da Riva” (IDR) and the group of Sistemas de Tiempo Real y Arquitectura de Servicios Telemáticos (STRAST). |
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