In May 1996, the Brilliant Eyes Ten-Kelvin Sorption Cryocooler Experiment (BETSCE) was flown aboard the Space Shuttle flight STS-77 in the first space-flight demonstration of chemisorption cryocooler technology. While on orbit, BETSCE successfully met its science objectives of cooling from 70 K to 10 K in less than two minutes, sustaining a 100 mW heat load below 11 K for over then minutes, and demonstrating recycle times of approximately eleven hours.


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    Title :

    Post-Flight Analysis of a 10K Sorption Cryocooler


    Contributors:
    Bard, R. C. (author) / Karlmann, S. (author)

    Publication date :

    1997-07-28


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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