Environmental Temperature Limits

• Temperature range of attachment point in the Space Shuttle payload bay is -45/+40 C (-50/+105 F).

  • source: AIAA 85-6058, “Thermal Environments for Space Shuttle Payloads”, Fu, Graves.

• Temperature of the substructure on orbit is expected to vary from -20/+40 C (-4/+105 F).

  • Source: lumped capacitance model analysis.

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