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Project Overview
Project Vision
The mission of the project is to design, analyze and test a scalable prototype of a thermal heater controller for the Space Systems Division of ITT. The controller will be present in future satellite-imaging systems.
Project Background
The system can be described as a group of distributed, autonomous thermal control units that share the same power input. The satellite thermal heater controller is a single master multiple slave system that can be arrayed in a distributed fashion with centralized control.
Project Objectives
The team in P09141 will engage in the mission of developing the Thermal Heater Controller for ITT. The product shall operate by encoding and decoding modulated signals through the power lines. The product shall allow for communication between the components in the system, thermally stabilize critical optical subsystems and be packaged to operate in a space environment.
The team will need to develop an enclosure for the slaves and representative thermal loads for testing the thermal performance. The team will need to demonstrate compliance to the vibration and thermal specifications.The slaves must be able to communicate through wiring to a master unit.

From left to right: Scott Rioux, Greg Pawlowski, John Scipione, Sarmad Abedin, Chuck Moon, Perry Voyer, Anthony Berwin
Administrative Information
- Project Name
- Satellite Thermal Heater Controller
- Project Number
- P09141
- Project Track
- Aerospace Systems and Technology
- Project Family
- ITT Corporation
- Start Term
- Winter Quarter 2008 (20082)
- End Term
- Spring Quarter 2009 (20083)
- Primary Customer
- ITT Corporation (www.itt.com)
- Space Systems Division (www.ssd.itt.com)
- Chuck Moon
- Perry Voyer
- Secondary Customer
- D3 Engineering (www.d3engineering.com)
- Scott Reardon, PE
- Project Team
- Sarmad Abedin
- Anthony Berwin
- Greg Pawlowski
- Scott Rioux
- John Scipione
- Faculty Guide
- George Slack
- Student Guide
- Jay Radhakrishnan
- Faculty Consultants
- Margaret Bailey
- Sohail Dianat
- Christopher Hoople
- Marca Lam
- John Wellin
- Special Thanks to
- Jerome Barczykowski
- Robert Kraynik
- Christianna Walter
Published Documents
- Presentation (Open with Microsoft PowerPoint)
- Technical Paper
- Poster
- Assembly Plan
- Test Plan
Design Information
Planning
Intellectual Property Considerations
Preliminary Work Breakdown Structure
Required Resources