RECENT AFFILIATIONS
Businesses
- 6 kW Space Radiator Demonstration Unit
- Intermediate Temperature Fluids for Heat Pipes and Loop Heat Pipes
- Intermediate Temperature Heat Pipe Life Tests
- Variable Conductance Heat Pipes for Radioisotope Stirling Systems
- An Ultra-Lightweight, High Performance Carbon-Carbon Space Radiator
- Advanced Lightweight Recuperator for Space Power Systems
- 30 kWe dual closed Brayton power system
Clever Fellows Innovation Consortium
- High Power Stirling Linear Alternator Test Rig (HPLATR)
- Micro-fabricated Brayton convertors
- Lightweight High Temperature Radiator Panels
- High temperature joining
Energy Science Laboratories, Inc.
- Lightweight Radiator Fins for Space Nuclear Power
- 5 kWe Stirling engine
- STIRDYN dynamic analysis code
- 50 kWe Brayton Alternator Test Unit (ATU)
- 2 kWe Brayton Power Conversion Unit
- Technology Demonstration Convertors (TDC)
- Long-Lived Solar Concentrator for Space Power
- Inflatable Solar Concentrator Using Formed-Gore Technology
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
- High-efficiency, 100-We (watts electric)-class Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG)
- Fission Surface Power concept evaluation studies
- 6 kW Space Radiator Demonstration Unit
- Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors for Space Based Nuclear Reactors
- Second generation Radiator Demonstration Unit
- Wide Range Neutron Detector
- Fission Surface Power concept evaluation studies
- Stirling Space Power System Analysis
- Milli-Watt Radioisotope Stirling Convertor
- High Performance Next Generation Stirling Radioisotope Power Convertor (ASC)
- High Power Stirling Convertors
- High Efficiency, Long Life, Low Mass Stirling Engine for Low Power Applications
- High Specific Power Multiple-Cylinder Free-Piston Alpha Stirling
- Thermo-Acoustic Convertor for Space Power
- Ti-H2O heat pipes
- 1/10th Segment Heat Pipe Life Test
- Pulsed Tube Stirling
Government
- High-efficiency, 100-We (watts electric)-class Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator (ASRG)
- Reactor Module Development with support from National Laboratories at Idaho, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia
- Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP)
- Reactor simulation and non-nuclear testing
Universities
- 5 kWe Stirling Engine Development
- Multi-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) Stirling code validation and development
- Stirling regenerator research
- Thermodynamic 2nd law analysis applied to Stirling CFD codes
- Development and testing of a microfabricated (involute-foil) Stirling regenerator
- Large Scale and Actual Scale Regenerator Experiments and CFD Modeling for Improved Design and Manufacturing Practices
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Low Temperature Differential Stirling Cycle Engine
- Composite materials
- Material irradiation testing
- Multi-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Stirling code validation and development
- Stirling regenerator research
- Development and testing of a microfabricated (involute-foil) Stirling regenerator
- High Efficiency Thermoelectric Radioisotope Power Systems
- High temperature materials and joints
Thermal Energy Conversion Branch
NASA Fact
The Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft landed in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans when they returned to Earth.
- NASA Official: Richard K. Shaltens
- Curator: Peggy A. Cornell
- Last Updated: July 17, 2008