Thermal Protection for Hypersonic Sensor Windows

Passive Silica Antenna Windows Showing Shape Change After Exposure to Arcjet Heating

Micro Cooling Concepts' employees developed a number of passive and active thermal protection schemes for hypersonic RF and IR windows. Several of the actively-cooled approaches are listed below:

• Dual Mode IR/Ka-Band Interceptor Seeker Antenna
• Cooled Ka-Band Slotted Waveguide Antenna
• Cooled X-Band Button Antenna Array