Thermal design of the XRS helium cryostat

Cryogenics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 773-780

  Breon, S R ^a   Gibbon, J A ^a   Boyle, R F ^a   DiPirro, M J ^a   Warner, B A ^a   Tuttle, J G ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Space cryogenics; Space flight helium dewars; X Ray spectrometer (XRS)

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; DEWARS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERVICE LIFE; SPACE FLIGHT; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL LOAD; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

ADIABATIC DEMAGNETIZATION REFRIGERATOR; HELIUM CRYOSTAT; SPACE CRYOGENICS; SPACE FLIGHT HELIUM DEWARS;

CRYOSTATS;

EID: 0030270082     PISSN: 00112275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0011-2275(96)00039-2     Document Type: Article

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