Obtaining high precision temperature data is crucial in spaceflight applications, considering the growing demand for high precision temperature measurement and the limited onboard resources with a harsh thermal environment in the spacecraft. How to obtain the data, however, becomes an urgent problem. Kalman filtering method is one of the solutions to obtain high precision temperature data with such limited resources. In this paper, the authors demonstrate the principle of temperature measurement system, the application of Kalman filter in temperature measurement including the processing method of sensor self-heating effect, and establishes the state space of measurement error and system error. Through the test, it could be seen that Kalman filtering can improve the temperature measurement resolution to the order of 100 μK while effectively reducing the temperature measurement bias.

In this paper, the mission and the thermal environment of the Solar Close Observations and Proximity Experiments (SCOPE) spacecraft are analyzed, and an advanced thermal management system (ATMS) is designed for it. The relationship and functions of the integrated database, the intelligent thermal control system and the efficient liquid cooling system in the ATMS are elaborated upon. For the complex thermal field regulation system and extreme space thermal environment, a modular simulation and thermal field planning method are proposed, and the feasibility of the planning algorithm is verified by numerical simulation. A solar array liquid cooling system is developed, and the system simulation results indicate that the temperatures of the solar arrays meet the requirements as the spacecraft flies by perihelion and aphelion. The advanced thermal management study supports the development of the SCOPE program and provides a reference for the thermal management in other deep-space exploration programs.

In the field of space gravitational wave detection, high-precision temperature measurement with a resolution at the micro-Kelvin level in the milli-Hertz frequency range is required to mitigate the interference caused by temperature fluctuations around the core components. This is a very challenging task due to resistance thermal noise and the inherent 1/f noise of electronic components. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes a low-noise, high-resolution temperature measurement method based on an inductive voltage divider and an alternating-current (AC) bridge. The proposed method has the following three characteristics: (1) it employs an AC excitation signal to drive the temperature measuring bridge to overcome the influence of 1/f noise in electronic components; (2) it uses as few resistance components as possible in the AC bridge and signal detection circuit to reduce the impact of resistance thermal noise on the measurement results; (3) it adopts a frequency-domain data processing algorithm based on discrete Fourier transform to improve the accuracy of the temperature measuring result. Using this method, a circuit board is designed and tested. The results show that the noise floor level of the designed temperature measurement circuit is below $7\times {10}^{-6}\mathrm{K}/\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ in a frequency range of 0.005~1 Hz. This demonstrates that our proposed method is able to detect extremely weak temperature change signals and meets the temperature measurement requirements of space gravitational wave detection.