ACT Announces Additional Products On-Orbit

LANCASTER, Pa., March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) (www.1-ACT.com) announced today that a second satellite carrying its Constant Conductance Heat Pipes (CCHPs) has been launched. Orbital Sciences Corporation, who manufactured and tested the spacecraft, confirmed that the CCHPs are operating as designed. Including this launch, the total combined operational time of ACT CCHPs is over 23,000 hours.

"This clearly demonstrates our ability to routinely manufacture complex satellite thermal control products," says John Hartenstine, Manager of ACT Aerospace Products Group. "We are pleased with this recent launch which expands our flight heritage and are excited about additional launches in 2010."

The team members of ACT's Aerospace Group include a diverse skill set, making the group capable of solving the most demanding thermal management problems. The team's customer focused approach is driving rapid growth and allowing ACT to quickly become a trusted supplier of advanced research and development, thermal management consulting services and flight quality products.

About ACT

ACT specializes in advanced thermal technology development and custom thermal product manufacturing. ACT designs and manufactures heat pipes, pumped liquid and two-phase loops and thermal storage devices for customers in aerospace, military, commercial, and government R&D sectors.

ACT's team consists of personnel with established track records in technology development, commercialization and production. Many of them were involved in pioneering work on heat pipes, loop heat pipes and other two-phase heat transfer devices. They are the inventors/coinventors on more than sixty U.S. and international patents and the authors/co-authors of more than three hundred fifty scientific publications.

ACT's Facility measures approximately 29,500 square feet, including office, laboratory and manufacturing spaces. It is capable of performing complex design, analysis, manufacture and testing work including CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), FEA (Finite Element Analysis), 3-D solid modeling, vacuum processing, high temperature materials processing, and high heat flux testing. This facility has produced thermal hardware with the following operating ranges:

• Temperatures: from -150 to 1,100 degrees C.
• Pressures: from 10-9 torr to 10,000 psi.
• Heat fluxes: to 1,500 W/cm2.
• Heat load: from less than 1 W to 540 kW.

ACT is certified to ISO 9001:2008 standards for terrestrial applications and AS9100-B standards for aerospace applications.

For information about ACT, visit www.1-ACT.com.

SOURCE Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.