Aerospace

Advanced Cooling for High-Density Flight, Space, and Defense Systems

As aerospace systems evolve and become more electrified, they face significant thermal challenges. Commercial airplanes, satellites, missile platforms, and onboard AI computing systems generate considerable heat, requiring compact, high-performance cooling solutions that operate reliably in vacuum environments, at high altitudes, and in thermally constrained conditions. These applications require precise cooling under extreme conditions, where failure is not an option.

Liquid cooling is crucial in aerospace for effectively managing the significant heat generated by powerful, densely packed electronics and propulsion systems in aircraft, satellites, and spacecraft, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and longevity in extreme operating environments. Mikros Technologies’ liquid cooling solutions offer superior heat absorption and transfer capabilities, enabling efficient cooling in compact spaces, providing precise temperature control when air cooling is insufficient, and contributing to overall mission safety and success.

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Why is Liquid Cooling Important for Aerospace?

Avionics systems perform critical functions, including communications, navigation, flight control, weather monitoring, and collision avoidance. To ensure mission success, these systems must operate reliably in extreme conditions, including freezing temperatures, high humidity, sand, and intense heat, which pose significant challenges for thermal management. Mikros Technologies addresses these challenges by optimizing the cooling of high heat loads, reducing the temperature sensitivity of composite materials, and improving the architecture of aircraft electrical systems. These improvements enhance system reliability and fuel efficiency by eliminating waste heat while ensuring that increasingly complex avionics systems maintain their required operating temperature limits.

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Optimized Performance

Sensitive avionics systems require highly efficient thermal management to maintain optimal performance. Mikros Technologies' liquid cooling solutions enhance the performance of high-power components by preventing thermal throttling and degradation that could compromise safety. By effectively controlling the temperature of these systems and increasing their thermal budgets, we help avoid costly disruptions and failures, ensuring components operate reliably. This enables pilots to consistently achieve predictable outcomes and uphold essential safety standards during flight.

#2

Weight Savings

Weight is a crucial factor in aerospace design because it significantly impacts fuel consumption, maneuverability, range, and safety, among other essential operations. Our compact, low-flow, high-performance cold plates are engineered to reduce system mass while enabling the integration of advanced electronics in tighter spaces without overheating. With smaller heat exchangers, increased thermal capacity, and lightweight materials, our solutions effectively reduce aircraft weight.

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Superior Heat Transfer

Heat transfer is essential in avionic systems to prevent electronic components from overheating at extreme temperatures. Overheating can lead to component failure, reduced reliability, and increased safety risks. Mikros Technologies’ advanced liquid cooling technology has a higher heat-transfer capacity than traditional cold plate designs, enabling it to absorb and dissipate significantly more heat per unit of coolant flow.

#4

Energy Efficiency

Electrical efficiency is crucial in the aerospace industry because it reduces energy consumption, enhances fuel efficiency, extends aircraft range, and lowers operational costs. Mikros Technologies provides advanced liquid cooling solutions that keep avionics systems within their optimal temperature ranges. By implementing our solutions, energy consumption is decreased, and stress on electronic components is reduced. This not only extends the lifespan of components but also prevents costly breakdowns and minimizes the environmental impact and emissions associated with aviation.

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Reliability

Air becomes less dense at higher altitudes, which makes it more challenging to cool electronic devices. Mikros Technologies offers a more consistent and effective solution, unaffected by changes in ambient air density. Our liquid cooling solutions are vacuum-brazed and leak-checked using helium mass spectrometry, ensuring robust performance under high-pressure, high-altitude, and temperature-fluctuating conditions. This delivers the durability necessary for aerospace and defense applications.

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Adaptability

The increasing complexity of avionics, particularly with the integration of hybrid electrical propulsion and energy weapon systems, generates significantly more heat than traditional flight systems. Mikros Technologies' liquid-cooling designs are structured to support agile design changes that adapt to the evolving needs of an aircraft's development cycle. Our design engineering team takes pride in being a strong development partner, collaborating with our customers to deliver the highest-performing and most reliable liquid-cooling systems available.