{"id":217209,"date":"2025-07-04T18:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/space-based-experiments-show-wax-filled-heat-sinks-keep-electronics-cooler-for-longer"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:15:55","slug":"space-based-experiments-show-wax-filled-heat-sinks-keep-electronics-cooler-for-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/space-based-experiments-show-wax-filled-heat-sinks-keep-electronics-cooler-for-longer","title":{"rendered":"Space-based experiments show wax-filled heat sinks keep electronics cooler for longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-based-experiments-show-wax-filled-heat-sinks-keep-electronics-cooler-for-longer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary research team including mechanical science and engineering professor Mickey Clemon from the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is investigating cooling methods for heat sinks by performing experiments onboard a satellite currently orbiting Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversity-sponsored satellites have a very low success rate of making it into space, so we\u2019re very happy that we made it into space and that our system works,\u201d Clemon said.<\/p>\n<p>The team has <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0017931025004788\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the recent findings from their ongoing study, \u201cInvestigating the performance of a heat sink for satellite avionics <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/thermal+management\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thermal management<\/a>: From ground-level testing to space-like conditions,\u201d in the <i>International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary research team including mechanical science and engineering professor Mickey Clemon from the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is investigating cooling methods for heat sinks by performing experiments onboard a satellite currently orbiting Earth. \u201cUniversity-sponsored satellites have a very low success rate of making it into space, so we\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}