NASA NTRS · 19890020207
Surface tension confined liquid cryogen cooler
Abstract
A cryogenic cooler is provided for use in craft such as launch, orbital, and space vehicles subject to substantial vibration, changes in orientation, and weightlessness. The cooler contains a small pore, large free volume, low density material to restrain a cryogen through surface tension effects during launch and zero-g operations and maintains instrumentation within the temperature range of 10 to 140 K. The cooler operation is completely passive, with no inherent vibration or power requirements.
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Stephen H Castles, Michael E Schein. 1989-04-18. Surface tension confined liquid cryogen cooler. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19890020207
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