Cryogenic/thermal system for the SIRTF cryogenic telescope assembly

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 42-49

  Hopkins, Richard A ^a   Finley, Paul T ^a   Schweickart, Russell B ^a   Volz, Stephen M ^b  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

IR instrument cooling; Passive cooling; Spaceborne cryogenic system; Superfluid helium cryostat

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYOGENICS; CRYOSTATS; INFRARED RADIATION; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THERMAL LOAD;

POWER DISSIPATION;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037957054     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461788     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. J. H. Lee, W. Blalock, R. J. Brown, S. Volz, T. Yarnell, and R. A. Hopkins, "Design and Development of the SIRTF Cryogenic Telescope Assembly (CTA)", Cryogenic Optical Systems and Instruments VIII, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 3435, July 1998, pp. 172-184.
2. S.M. Volz, R. Schweickart, and B. Heurich, "Superfluid Helium Cryostat of the SIRTF Cryogenic Telescope Assembly", presented at SPIE conference IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, August 22-28, 2002; to be published.
3. R. A. Hopkins and S. H. Castles, "Design of the Superfluid Helium Dewar for the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)," SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 509, 1985.
4. C. R. Lawrence, P. Eisenhardt, J. Emming, P.T. Finley, T.N. Gautier, G. Helou, R.A. Hopkins, B.B. Johnson, J. Keene, J.H. Kwok, J.H. Lee, S.J. Nieczkoski T.L. Roellig, R. Schweickart, "Operating SIRTF for Maximum Lifetime", presented at SPIE conference IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, August 22-28, 2002; to be published.
5. P. Finley, R. Oonk, and R. Schweickart, "Thermal Performance Verification of the SIRTF Cryogenic Telescope Assembly", presented at SPIE conference IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, August 22-28, 2002; to be published.