Thermal design and its on-orbit performance of the AKARI cryostat

Cryogenics

Volumn 48, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 189-197

  Hirabayashi, Masayuki ^a   Narasaki, Katsuhiro ^a   Tsunematsu, Shoji ^a   Kimura, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yoshida, Seiji ^a   Murakami, Hiroshi ^b   Nakagawa, Takao ^b   Ohnishi, Akira ^b   Matsumoto, Toshio ^b   Kaneda, Hidehiro ^b   Enya, Keigo ^b   Murakami, Masahide ^c  

^a SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

B. Superfluid helium; E. Stirling; F. Cryostat; F. Space cryogenics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; COOLING; CRYOGENICS; ORBITS; SILICON CARBIDE; SPACE TELESCOPES; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

CRYOGENS; SPACE CRYOGENICS; THERMAL DESIGN;

CRYOSTATS;

EID: 44349157553     PISSN: 00112275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryogenics.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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