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Active Thermal Control of Satellites with Electroactive Materials

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In orbit, satellites are subjected to strong temperature variations depending on the environment they encounter (hot or cold phases of the mission). Thus, one of the challenges in thermal control of artificial satellites is to develop new coatings, with variable emissivity, light, inexpensive, and requiring little or no electricity consumption. In this context, several research groups have developed electroemissive devices based on organic or inorganic materials with tunable infrared (IR) optical properties. This chapter is also devoted to a bibliographical study addressing the concept of emissivity on the one hand and describing the state of the art of electroemissive devices (EED) on the other hand. The most advanced EED fully described in the literature is reported as well as the EED developed by CY Cergy Paris Université and Thales Alenia Space. The latter was evaluated in thermal-vacuum conditions close to the space environment for a proof-of-concept-level testing, and the thermal regulation performances were reported.

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Vidal, F. et al. (2022). Active Thermal Control of Satellites with Electroactive Materials. In: Rasmussen, L. (eds) Smart Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70514-5_7

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