Labtucal develops small-scale cooling and thermal management solutions for space and aeronautical applications, and large-scale solutions for the oil, chemical, food and power generation industries. It has welding, machining, water jet, vacuum pumps, thermostatic baths, data acquisition systems, power sources, a large-scale furnace and a small-scale furnace for the diffusion bonding process. In addition, it has computing resources such as Ansys software and a cluster for numerical simulations. The UFSC Heat Pipe Laboratory (Labtucal), integrated with LEPTEN, began research in the area of heat pipe development in the early 1990s, originally with resources from the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), to meet the demands of the space sector in thermal control of satellites of the Brazilian Space Program. The laboratory expanded its lines of research, applying space technology to the industry in general, such as oil and aeronautics. Even so, the laboratory continued its research in the space area and, in the last 20 years, it has participated in all microgravity missions aboard suborbital rockets, financed by AEB through the Microgravity Program, in addition to being confirmed in the next three missions. It also participated in the Centennial mission, testing the devices on the International Space Station (ISS). Through projects with industries and development agencies, over the last twenty years, more than thirty million reais have been raised, which has enabled the acquisition of extensive institutional infrastructure, including equipment and the construction of more than 2,000 m² of space for laboratories, offices, training rooms and meeting rooms. These resources have also enabled the hiring of engineers, technicians and secretaries, in addition to funding scholarships.