Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.

Posted on March 28, 2011

Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Monday, March 28, 2011 Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) (www.1-ACT.com) announced today that it has successfully delivered Constant Conductance Heat Pipes (CCHP’s) and a CCHP embedded radiator panel for thermal management on NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite.  The externally mounted CCHP’s and radiator panel, procured through Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT), will provide thermal management for the Avionics, Battery, and Star Tracker instruments onboard the satellite.  Hardware integration is currently underway at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.  The satellite is scheduled for launch in July 2013.

“ACT is pleased to be working with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on this important science mission satellite,” says John R. Hartenstine, Manager of Aerospace Products at ACT. “We worked closely with the NASA engineers to develop the thermal management system components while meeting the stringent NASA quality standards and schedule.”

ACT’s Aerospace Products Group consists of personnel having diverse engineering and technology skills, making the group capable of solving some of the most demanding thermal management problems in spacecraft.  The group’s customer focused approach is driving rapid growth and allowing ACT to quickly become a trusted supplier of flight quality products, advanced research and development, and thermal management consulting services.

About ACT

ACT specializes in advanced thermal technology development and custom thermal product manufacturing. ACT designs and manufactures heat pipes, pumped liquid and two-phase loops and thermal storage devices for customers in aerospace, electronics, temperature calibration and government R&D sectors.

ACT’s team consists of personnel with established track records in technology development, commercialization and production. Many of them were involved in pioneering work on heat pipes, loop heat pipes and other two-phase heat transfer devices. They are the inventors/co-inventors on more than sixty U.S. and international patents and the authors/co-authors of more than three hundred fifty scientific publications.
ACT’s facility measures more than 30,000 square feet, including office, laboratory and manufacturing spaces. It is capable of performing complex design, analysis, manufacture and testing work including CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), FEA (Finite Element Analysis), 3-D solid modeling, vacuum processing, high temperature materials processing, and high heat flux testing. This facility has produced thermal hardware with the following operating ranges:

•    Temperatures: from -150 to 1,100°C.
•    Pressures: from 10-9 torr to 10,000psi.
•    Heat fluxes: to 1,500W/cm2.
•    Heat load: from less than 1W to 540kW.

ACT is certified to AS9100-B standards for aerospace applications and ISO 9001:2008 standards for terrestrial applications.

For information about ACT, visit www.1-ACT.com.

Media Contact:
Kyle S Van Riper
Business Development Manager
Aerospace Products Group
E-mail: Kyle.VanRiper@1-ACT.com
Phone: +1 (717) 295-6099