Each LIGO interferometer has two 4 - kilometer - long arms with mirrors at either end, housed in
a giant vacuum chamber.
Recently, the telescope and instruments completed a 100 - day test in
a giant vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Not exact matches
The Optical Telescope Element is shipped to Johnson Space Center for cryogenic testing in a
giant thermal
vacuum chamber called «
Chamber A.» The spacecraft bus is connected to the sunshield.
Additional environmental tests of the coupled telescope and instrument assembly will occur in a
giant thermal
vacuum chamber at Johnson in 2017.