[Pressure control system for the hermetically sealed cabin of the recoverable satellite]

There are many precision instruments and equipment for scientific researches and experiments in the hermetically sealed cabin of satellite. Appropriate pressure must be controlled in the cabin in order to ensure the instruments and equipment from the adverse space environment. This paper describes a pressure control system for the hermetically sealed cabin in the recoverable scientific detect and experimental satellite. The cabin pressure is regulated automatically into the specific levels by venting or supplying the air from or to the cabin during launch, on orbit and before reentry of the satellite. The system has low mass, low power consumption and high reliability. It was used successfully in the recoverable satellite first in September 1987 and had been used many times since then. It is the first active pressure control system for the hermetically sealed cabin of the satellite in China.