The Cryocooler for the Mid Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides cooling at 6.2K on the instrument interface. The cooler system design has been incrementally documented in previous publications [1][2][3][4][5]. It has components that traverse three primary thermal regions on JWST: Region 1, approximated by 40K; Region 2, approximated by 100K; and Region 3, which is at the allowable flight temperatures for the spacecraft bus. However, there are several sub-regions that exist in the transition between primary regions and at the heat reject interfaces of the Cooler Compressor Assembly (CCA) and Cooler Control Electronics Assembly (CCEA). The design and performance of the test facility to provide a flight representative thermal environment for acceptance testing and characterization of the complete MIRI cooler subsystem are presented.


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    Title :

    Mid Infrared Instrument Cooler Subsystem Test Facility Overview


    Contributors:
    Weilert, M. (author) / Penanen, K. (author) / Chui, T. (author) / Hannah, B. (author) / Zan, J. (author) / Moore, B. (author)

    Publication date :

    2017-07-09


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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