Research Article

Preliminary Thermal Design and Analysis of Lunar Lander for Night Survival

Table 5

Maximum and minimum temperatures and RHU power for a lunar lander with various thermal control H/Ws.

Thermal designsw/o RHUwith RHU
(°C) (°C) (°C) (°C)Req. RHU power (W)

SSM47.5−110.674−17.8135
SSM + heat switch47.8−10369.7−17.9107
Louver64.8−103.588−18115
Louver + heat switch64.5−9985−17.996
Shutter
 White paint/solar cell47.3−95.965.3−19.887
 MLI/black paint46.9−73.357.2−19.448
 MLI/white paint47.1−73.357.2−19.548