News tagged with cryogenic temperatures
James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray ...
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Herschel and Planck to lift off on 14 May
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Apr 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Now that additional checks on the Ariane 5 ECA launcher have been completed, Arianespace and ESA have set the launch date of Herschel and Planck for Thursday 14 May.
Final launch of Ariane 5 GS completes busy year
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Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, an Ariane 5 GS launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar ...
Cryogenic Phonon Scintillators to Help in Search for Dark Matter
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Mar 17, 2006 |
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What do WIMPs and MRIs have in common? Besides being acronyms, both the dark matter candidate and the medical diagnostic technique could benefit from the next generation of cryogenic scintillators being deve ...
Prototype developed to detect dark matter
Sep 25, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR, Spain) and the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, in France) has developed a "scintillating bolometer", a device that the scientists will ...
Supercooled and supersized technologies aboard Herschel and Planck
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May 11, 2009 |
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Away from sunlight it can get very cold in space, but not cold enough for the Herschel and Planck missions, which ESA and European industry have equipped with state-of-the-art refrigeration systems to make ...
Researchers Design Electronic Amplifier Capable of Functioning in Extreme Temperatures
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Missions to space require 'warm' boxes, which protect electronic circuitry from extreme temperatures and exposure to radiation. Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas ...
'Radio Wave Cooling' Offers New Twist on Laser Cooling
Sep 14, 2007 |
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Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms—and more recently larger objects—by reducing the extent of their thermal motion. Now, applying a different form of radiation ...
Planck satellite fuels up
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tests conducted on Planck at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, have confirmed that the satellite's subsystems work perfectly, and the helium dilution cooler tanks have now been ...
Exploring the standard model of physics without the high-energy collider
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, have performed sophisticated laser measurements to detect the subtle effects of one of nature's most ...
Rocket Tests Move NASA Closer to the Lunar Vision
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Jul 09, 2007 |
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A liquid oxygen-hydrogen pump fed engine developed to demonstrate advanced rocket technologies for future space vehicles achieved a major technical milestone in throttling capability.
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