Mainstream Engineering Awarded Contract from NASA to develop a Toxicity Mitigating Single-Fluid Cooling System for Manned Spacecraft

ROCKLEDGE, FL — December 9, 2018 — Mainstream Engineering Corporation, a 32-year-old Brevard County manufacturer with a history of leading-edge research and development that has resulted in advanced, lean-manufacturing, cost-competitive products, which are all Made in the USA, has been awarded a contract from NASA for a Toxicity Mitigating Single-Fluid Cooling System for Manned Spacecraft.

The thermal control systems for manned spacecraft are typically two-loop designs where a low freezing point toxic liquid is used, exterior to the manned vessel, to reject heat through the radiator array. A single-phase thermal loop inside the manned vessel that uses a non-toxic liquid is used for payload cooling and space conditioning. This architecture is necessary for crew safety because very low freezing point fluids are somewhat toxic or untested but come with a mass penalty due to the need for extra components and two loops instead of a single loop. Mainstream has developed a single loop architecture that uses toxicity mitigating technology.

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Mainstream Engineering Corporation is a solutions-oriented research, development, and manufacturing small business with a history of leading-edge R&D that has resulted in advanced, American-made, cost-competitive products. Founded in 1986, Mainstream’s mission is to transition thermal control, energy storage, and energy conversion technology into high-quality, cost-effective, environmentally safe green, commercial products. Products include lightweight diesel engines, thermal control units, biomass conversion technologies, refrigerators/freezers for shipping containers, and the QwikProducts™ line of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC/R) products.