Heritage overview: 20 Years of commercial production of cryocoolers for space

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 985, Issue , 2008, Pages 493-505

  Gibson, A S ^a   Reed, J ^a   Bradshaw, T W ^b   Linder, M ^c  

^a AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooler; Cryocooler; Micro vibration; Solarprotonevent; Stirling

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449095320     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2908589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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