Sentences with word «cryocooler»
A wunderkind of astronautical engineering during his 11 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Edwards led the development of the world's first optical cryocooler, a breakthrough device that achieved supercold temperatures with no moving parts («It breaks two, if not all three, laws of thermodynamics,» he says), and designed missions to the moon and Jupiter's moon Europa.
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The NCS is a mechanical cryocooler that will reenable NICMOS operation by cooling the instrument to temperatures around 75 - 86 K.
In the room outside, the refrigeration equipment emits a constant low humming, and the occasional high - pitched chirp courtesy of pulsing helium gas within the cryocooler.
The Webb telescope also has a cryocooler for cooling the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to a very cold 7 Kelvin so they can work.
a Capillary Pumped Loop (CPL) which transports the heat dissipated by the cryocooler to an external radiator, and
a circulator loop which transports heat from the inside of the NICMOS dewar to the cryocooler via a heat exchanger.
A cryocooler is essentially a very cold freezer!
The gas passes through a cryocooler.