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Custom Thermal Straps

Custom Thermal Straps

Custom thermal straps can be made with specially designed terminals to fit any interface.  Examples of custom aluminum foil thermal straps are shown below.  One provides cryogenic cooling of a focal plane array (FPA) by coupling it to a cryocooler. The TAFTS cools the FPA to just below 263K with the help of a strap-mounted TEC.

 

Custom Copper and Aluminum Thermal Straps

 

 

Custom two-arm thermal strap (bottom-left) along with two Standard Series thermal straps

 

Custom copper thermal straps for an Earth orbiting scientific instrument

 

Custom cryogenic thermal straps the size of a quarter for a future Mars mission

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Two-Arm Flexible Thermal Strap
Two Arm Flexible Thermal Strap (TAFTS) for focal plane cooling, was published in the Journal of Cryogenics.
TAFTS in NASA Tech Briefs.

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Cryogenic Thermal Strap for focal plane cooling on an airborne imaging spectrometer

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Twisted thermal straps have high flexibility about multiple axes