• Head, Technology Transfer and Industrial Coordination Division (TTIC)

Thermal Sensors & Probes

Indian Space Research Organisation at its Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram has developed various kinds of heat flux sensors and temperature probes. They have applications in a variety of heat measurements like radiative and convective heat flux measurement for short durations in flight, aerodynamic heat transfer measurements on moving bodies during flight and on wind/plasma tunnels, flame temperature measurement at nozzle exhaust, hot gas temperature measurement inside combustion chambers, etc. The range of sensors includes: Thin foil heat flux sensor (uncooled); Thin foil heat flux sensor (water-cooled); Slug heat flux sensor; Graphite heat flux sensor; Gas temperature probe; Stagnation temperature probe; Fast response temperature probe; and Eroding temperature probe.