sten-lithium heat pipe seen in Fig. 1. is shown operating at a working fluid temperature of 1200°C under a heat load simulating that which would be encountered by the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) engine cowl leading edge at Mach 20 [1]. The heat fluxes achieved during this and preliminary tests were about 100 times that previously attained with heat pipe technology [2].
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