BOULDER, Colo., April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace
recently delivered a cryostat to the University of Arizona for NASA's
Galactic/Extragalactic Ultralong-Duration Balloon Spectroscopic
Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO), a long-duration balloon mission that
will map out parts of the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud
galaxies to determine the life cycle of interstellar gas, witness
the formation and destruction of star-forming clouds, and
understand the dynamics and gas flow in the vicinity of the center
of the Milky Way.
The Ball-built cryostat is a low-heat leak tank that contains
liquid helium and is designed to keep the GUSTO instrument cool
during the entire length of the planned balloon flight.
"We are honored to work with the University
of Arizona on NASA's GUSTO mission, which will measure
emissions form the interstellar medium, or the cosmic material
found between stars," said Dr. Makenzie
Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Space,
Ball Aerospace. "Ball is an industry leader in designing and
developing cryogenic systems, which includes our cryogenic center
of excellence for the development of unique cryogenic products such
as the cryostat for the GUSTO mission."
GUSTO, which is part of NASA's Astrophysics Explorers Program,
is scheduled to launch from Antarctica in 2021. The University of Arizona's Chris Walker is the GUSTO mission principal
investigator. Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory will provide the mission operations.
Ball has more than 40 years of experience developing cryogenic
spaceflight systems and more than 25 years of developing
cryocoolers. The cryogenic experience includes cryogenic cooling
systems such as cryostats, cryoradiators, cryocoolers and
thermoelectric coolers. For example, Ball developed the cryocooler
for NASA's Thermal Infrared Sensor-1 (TIRS-1) and TIRS-2. TIRS-1 is
flying onboard Landsat 8 and Ball delivered TIRS-2 in 2018 to NASA
Goddard for the Landsat 9 satellite.
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