The JPL flight cryostat last flew on the Space Shuttle in October 1992 in support of the Lambda Point Experiment. A new experiment, the Confined Helium Experiment (CHeX), now in development will reuse this cryostat. An improvement to the cryostat performance was necessitated by the CHeX experiment having a longer mission requirement and stricter requirements imposed by NASA with respect to a launch-scrub turnaround scenario. The parasitic heat load reduction necessary to relieve both constraints was about 15percent or 1 liter/day. The techniques implemented to achieve this goal, and subsequent results are presented along with a thermal model used during the analysis of the cryostat.
Performance Improvement of the CHeX Flight Cryostat
Advances in Cryogenic Engineering
1995-01-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
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Englisch
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