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J. Van Houtte, A. , J. Van Muiden, J. Peeters, N. van Remortel

Nick.vanremortel@uantwerpen.be (Physics), Jeroen.peeters2@uantwerpen.be (Engineering)
ENGINEERING ABSTRACT: REFERENCE:
SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACT: Muiden J.,
Cosmic rays are high from the In general, it is dicult to analyze equipment for space behaviour
sun and objects. When such collide with applicability due to the fact that tests on Earth 2016.
atoms in the Earths atmosphere they a cascade of are technically dicult and expensive. To prove the
secondary a so-called extensive airshower. reliability of space systems, a of numerical
While the airshower propagates towards the Earths surface, analysis and expensive pre-ight tests is used.
the number of increases due to and A new methodology is developed in which a
hadronic . reaching its maximal extent the is made of low-budget ground tests with a
number of decreases due to energy loses. newly developed nite element model
The HACORD detector is a low-cost platform to study the technique which can deliver a ecient added
longitudinal airshower development experimentally. It value or to the expensive and -
provides measurements of the ux and the angular distribution consuming pre-ight tests during thermal analysis.
of the secondary . The detector consists of four Geiger- In this shows the inuence of
Mller tubes set up in a allowing to discriminate ve several design parameters on the accuracy of thermal
different incident angles. for space and discusses how
this accuracy can be . The experimental data
is compared with an updated and a regular numerical
of the performed experiment.
Coincident ux (counts/sr s)
Flux (counts/s)

Thermal Load Material properties

Environmental
experiment: measurement:
estimations
Thermography Freezer test

Temperature (C)
Initial Numerical
Exclude convection
model of the flight

Avoided steps

Numerical
model
optimization
Atmospheric pressure (kPa) Atmospheric pressure (kPa) Time (s) Cryogenic
vacuum test

CONCLUSIONS: CONCLUSIONS:
Optimized
It numerical
model Test flight
o
o - Weather
development. - The used materials are well known Thermal analysis and flight
worthiness prediction
- Launch period is known in advance
o

Temporal max temperature offset improves to 5 C