Superfluid helium cryostat for the SIRTF cryogenic telescope assembly

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4850, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1038-1049

  Volz, Stephen M ^a   Schweickart, Russell B ^b   Heurich, Bruce ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly recognition; Contamination; Cryostat; Operations; Sensor cooling; SIRTF; Space cryogenics

Indexed keywords

CRYOSTATS; PHASE SEPARATION; SENSORS; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

ANOMALY RECOGNITION;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038062780     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461482     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. R. A. Hopkins, R. B. Schweickart, and S. M. Volz, "Cryogenic/thermal System for the SIRTF Cryogenic Telescope Assembly", presented at SPIE conference IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, August 22-28, 2002; to be published.
2. 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.
3. S. M. Volz, R. B. Schweickart, K. Gause, and R. Pederson, "SIRTF Cryostat Requirements and Development", Cryogenics, Vol. 39 (1999), p. 975-983.