High temperature superconductivity space experiment (HTSSE)

Conference · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:6089313

Ritter, J C; Nisenoff, M; Price, G; Wolf, S A ^[1]

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1. Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (United States)

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is developing an experiment to deploy high temperature superconducting (HTS) devices and components in space. A variety of devices, primarily passive microwave and millimeter wave components, has been procured and will be integrated with a cryogenic refrigerating and data acquisition system to form the space package, which will be launched late in 1992. This space experiment will demonstrate that this technology is sufficiently robust to survive the space environment and that has the potential to improve the operation of space systems significantly. The devices for the initial launch (HTSSE-I) have been received by NRL and evaluated electrically, thermally and mechanically and will be integrated into the final space package early in 1991. In this paper, the performance of the devices is summarized and some potential applications of HTS technology in space systems is outlined.

• OSTI ID: 6089313
• Report Number(s): CONF-900944-; CODEN: IEMGA
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 27:2; Conference: 1990 applied superconductivity conference, Snowmass, CO (United States), 24-28 Sep 1990; ISSN 0018-9464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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