Development of Foam Subsystem for NASA’s Dragonfly Mission

Discipline: Thermal Control & Protection

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Abstract:
The brief presentation will go over how the Dragonfly foam subsystem went from a list of multiple material candidates to a subsystem capable of meeting the mission’s thermal, structural and contamination requirements while still being implementable in time for I&T. The presentation will walk through, in chronological order, the thought process, tests and decisions that took place as the subsystem matured from a concept to an implementable solution.

About the Speaker:
Rolando Rodarte has been the lead engineer for the Dragonfly foam subsystem for the last 2.5 years. Before that he was the lead thermal engineer for the Lunar Vertex mission and the deputy lead thermal engineer for the Europa Clipper EIS NAC instrument. He has a mechanical engineering degree with a focus on heat transfer and energy systems from MIT and a masters in mechanical engineering with a focus on thermal-fluid systems from Johns Hopkins.