Aaron Bournias
Mechanical engineering
Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Graduation date: Spring 2027
FURI | Fall 2026, Needs Review
Improvement and Testing of Cryothermal Testing Station for Advanced Spacecraft Thermal Control
As spacecraft become more advanced, there is a need for improved thermal management systems due to the high temperature gradients between spacecraft electronics, the Sun, and the blackbody background of space. Existing spacecraft thermal control technologies rely on systems that can’t adapt to the extreme conditions of space. Variable emissivity coatings are a promising development for advanced spacecraft thermal control to solve this issue. Variable emissivity coatings are able to change their emissivity based on temperature or voltage state. This project improves the cryothermal testing station and performs data analysis on different variable emissivity coatings and how composition affects the parameters.
Mentor: Liping Wang
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