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of other signicant components of the satellite, which is precisely the case of the battery
support.
For availability reasons, the Al − 7075 T 6 alloy was selected [40].
3.7 Thermal control's devices selection
Now, the selection of the dierent devices that perform the thermal control of the
batteries, will be discussed. It should be noted that this selection was realized by the
THER team. Further detail on each of these devices can then be found in reference [35].
In this section, we will only draw a list of these components and, for each of them, the
advantages that led to this particular choice.
3.7.1 Heaters
To maintain the batteries' temperature range in acceptable values, the use of heaters is
necessary. In our case, the heaters are polyimide thermofoil heaters from Minco industry
(illustrated in Figure 3.10) [41].
Figure 3.10: Polyimide thermofoil heater
These heaters present several advantages:
• They are available in a lot of dierent forms and dimensions. In our case, we chose
heaters that had the dimensions closest to the batteries' ones.
• They are lightweight.
• They can be glued directly on the batteries. This particularity is widely used in space
applications.
• They are space-qualied.
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