Performance of the Spirit III cryogenic system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3122, Issue , 1997, Pages 69-77

  Schick, Scott H ^a   Bell, Greg A ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenics; Hydrogen; Long wave infrared sensor; Midcourse space experiment; MSX; SPIRIT III

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; CRYOGENICS; CRYOSTATS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; INERT GASES; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LAUNCHING; LIQUEFIED GASES; MIXED CONVECTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ORBITS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SENSORS; SPACE OPTICS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; TELESCOPES; THERMAL INSULATION; VACUUM; WAVES;

BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE (BFD); END-OF-LIFE (EOF); LIQUID HELIUM (LHE); LONG-WAVE INFRARED SENSOR; MIDCOURSE SPACE EXPERIMENT; MSX; SPIRIT III; STRESS CORROSION; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 0039543322     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279007     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Frederick, W.G.D., et al. "MSX failure review team final report," February 28, 1995.
2. Bjeletich, J. G. to G. Bell, Lockheed-Martin interdepartmental communication, 27 October 1995.
3. Taken from Schick, S. "SPIRIT III cryogenic status update," SDL memorandum to members of DCATT committee and program office, 18 June, 1986.
4. Bell, G. and S. Schick, "Development of hydrogen-filling techniques for the SPIRIT III cryostat," in Cryogenic Optical Systems and Instruments VI, SPIE Proceedings 2227, April 1994.