Sentences with phrase «vacuum chamber at»

The 1,025 - pound spacecraft is currently sitting in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where it is undergoing tests before being shipped to Kennedy Space Center to begin launch preparations.

Additional environmental tests of the coupled telescope and instrument assembly will occur in a giant thermal vacuum chamber at Johnson in 2017.

For example, in 1965 a technician inside a vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston accidentally depressurized his space suit by disrupting a hose.

For this particular research, the scientists tested samples of common salt — sodium chloride — along with mixtures of salt and water, in their vacuum chamber at Europa's chilly surface temperature of minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 Celsius).

Recently, the telescope and instruments completed a 100 - day test in a giant vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

A vacuum chamber at NASA's Ames Research Center exposes ices found on meteors to space - like conditions.

Not exact matches

On Earth, gravity pulls at the atoms the moment they are released, typically giving physicists just 10 to 20 milliseconds to make their measurements before the BEC crashes to the bottom of the vacuum chamber.

The experiment, housed in a laboratory adjacent to his office at the University of Washington, is a supercooled, magnetized vacuum chamber equipped with a sensitive detector that listens for the microwave «ping» of passing particles called axions.

A 64.5 - foot - wide test version of the Sunjammer solar sail sits unfurled in a large vacuum chamber during tests at NASA's Plum Brook facility in Ohio.

So he isolated a single ytterbium atom in a vacuum chamber, shined a laser at it, and focused in on the resulting 450 - nanometer gap of darkness that landed on his digital image sensor.

Bruce Kane at the University of Maryland in College Park sprayed charged graphene flakes a micron wide into a vacuum chamber.

To take an up - close look at the gold nanoparticles in action, the researchers made a vacuum - tight microfluidic chamber by pressing two silicon - nitride semiconductor chips together with a 150 - nanometer spacer in between.

Each LIGO interferometer has two 4 - kilometer - long arms with mirrors at either end, housed in a giant vacuum chamber.

This chamber is filled with dry air — at a pressure of about 1 atm — to prevent the electronics package from overheating, while the high - vacuum probe end of the RGA is specifically designed to protrude out of the chamber so it can perform gas sampling.

In the new study, researchers placed tiny particles of silicon carbide (one represented by the group of tan molecules in this artist's concept) covered with graphite (hexagonal networks of gray atoms) in a vacuum chamber that duplicated the deep - space conditions surrounding many stars (temperatures between 900 and 1500 kelvins and pressures less than one - billionth that found at Earth's surface).

To that end the researchers utilized a pair of ytterbium ions as quantum bits, or qubits, each confined to a private vacuum chamber about a meter apart in an experimental system at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

This involves heating a sample of a precursor compound at several hundred °C elsius for only a few milliseconds in a vacuum chamber.

The telescope's combined science instruments and optical element recently completed about 100 days of cryogenic testing inside Johnson's Chamber A, a massive thermal vacuum testing chamber at the center.

just wanted to add a note here — I have a chamber vacuum and they very explicitly stated that you can not vacuum seal perishable food and leave it out at room temp — creating a vacuum does not substitute for the sterilization that results from canning.