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Passive thermal control<br />

External radiators Two radiators of 57 m2, each weighting 850 kg (15 kg/m2 from<br />

ISS PVR)<br />

Insulation 0 kg for the main body of the transfer vehicle: the thermal<br />

properties of the MOD shield are exploited, the related budget<br />

transferred to structure.<br />

150 kg are provisioned for specific external and internal elements<br />

insulation.<br />

Heating system 5.58 kW installed power corresponding to 13 kg (heaters,<br />

thermostats, sensors, lines)<br />

3 control units (1 on), each 6 kg, 29W when shell heaters are<br />

100% duty cycle (COF)<br />

Cryo systems<br />

Oxygen tank (life support) 4 coolers, each 3kg, consumption 35W each<br />

MLI: x kg for each tank (x 2)<br />

Overall budget (as introduced in the system)<br />

3.3.4 Power<br />

Table 3-27: Design summary<br />

Table 3-28: Overall budgets<br />

HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

page 182 of 422<br />

3.3.4.1 Design drivers<br />

The main drivers of the power subsystem design are:<br />

• The mission duration: 3 years and the required assembly time in LEO<br />

• A safety level issued to the transportation of astronauts<br />

• A power subsystem that fits with the assembly constraint (volume limitation,<br />

mounting,…)<br />

• The use of technologies expected to be qualified in 2015<br />

Future technologies for power generation, conditioning or storage are abundant. Some of them<br />

seem really interesting for space purposes but still only exist on paper or in the best case at the<br />

level of experimentation. For this design, technologies that are more mature (already qualified in<br />

space but in which improvements are expected in the coming years) and ones have reached a<br />

high state of art are the only ones taken into account.

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