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Loop Heat Pipes (LHP) emerge as standard equipment for spacecraft thermal control. Based on a co-operation agreement between TAIS, Moscow and OHB-System AG, Bremen several thermal control projects for Mars mission, ISS and small satellites have been initiated, which are all based on loop heat pipes. The thermal control systems, described in this paper, are currently under development or hardware manufacturing. The paper will detail the application scenario, development steps and first test results.

Present paper's purpose is to describe three Thermal Control Systems (TCSs) on base of Loop Heat Pipes (LHPs) that were realized in frame of “Mars-96” program. The main problems that were solved during the TCSs elaboration and some terrestrial tests' results will be also presented here below.