Flight cooling performance of the spitzer space telescope cryogenic telescope assembly

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 26-37

  Finley, Paul T ^a   Hopkins, Richard A ^a   Schweickart, Russell B ^a  

^a BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Helium mass gauge; Infrared telescope; SIRTF; Superfluid helium cryostat; Warm launch

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; CRYOSTATS; INFRARED RADIATION; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THERMAL EFFECTS; VACUUM;

HELIUM MASS GAUGE; INFRARED TELESCOPES; SIRTF; SUPERFLUID HELIUM CRYOSTAT; WARM LAUNCH;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044251318     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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