METHOD OF CONTROLLING AIR TEMPERATURE ABOARD MANNED SPACECRAFT Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC B64G1/50 B64G1/44 

FIELD: astronautics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to aerospace engineering, particularly, to life support systems. Method of controlling air temperature on board a manned spacecraft (SC) includes determining position relative to direction of Sun of spacecraft housing and radiators-emitters of thermal control system (TCS), setting the parameters of operation of the thermal control system, maintaining air temperature in the specified range of values and monitoring heat carrier flow in the radiator emitter main line. In addition, load current of the on-board electrical network is measured. Angle is measured β between the direction to the Sun and the orbital plane. Load current and air temperature are measured. Load current and air temperature are repeatedly measured at subsequent turns and at the exit of the last stored value of the average temperature T_last the temperature outside the range for comfortable crew electric power consumption is changed until load reaches predicted weighted average value. Actions described above are continued starting from said repeated measurement of load current and air temperature.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of maintaining air temperature.

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