Flight Demonstration of a 10K Cryocooler
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Hydrogen sorption crycoolers are being developed for the European Space Agency Planck mission to provide nominal 19 K cooling to instruments for measuring the temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background with extreme sensitivity and resolution.
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The efficiency, of the electronics plays a large part in determining the overall spacecraft power requirements to operate the cooler as well as determining the thermal dissipation characteristics of the various electrical components. The results of all the performance measurements are presented in the paper.
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The design and fabrication of a small, closed-cycle, periodic 10 K sorption cyrocooler laboratory system is described. The cooler is designed to provide cooldown from 60 to <10 K in under 2 minutes, maintain a simulated detector heat load of 100 mW below 10 K for over 10 minutes, and have the ability to be recycled in under 6 hours.
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This paper presents the fundamental equations governing cyocooler mechanical efficiency and launch vibration response in terms of their implications for cooler design.
An overview is presented of ongoing efforts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center in support of current flight projects, near-term flight instruments, and long-term technology development.