{"id":384289,"date":"2023-06-28T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=topic&p=384289"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:44:55","slug":"xrcf","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/setmo\/facilities\/xrcf\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\" hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-secondary-navigation\"><div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-wrapper z-top width-100 padding-0\"><div id=\"\" class=\"hds-secondary-navigation width-full border-bottom-1px text-center hds-color-mode-light hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-hdsnav\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"hds-secondary-nav-mobile-button display-flex tablet:display-flex desktop:display-none width-full flex-align-center bg-carbon-90 border-color-carbon-80 color-spacesuit-white\" aria-expanded=\"false\" 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Facility<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-7 padding-right-0 desktop:padding-right-6 padding-bottom-5 desktop:padding-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg margin-0 padding-0\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/setmo\/facilities\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button-primary link-external-true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"section-heading-md\">\n                                Learn More <span class=\"usa-sr-only\">about X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility<\/span>                            <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><circle class=\"button-primary-circle\" cx=\"16\" cy=\"16\" r=\"16\"><\/circle><path d=\"M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z\" 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https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jwst-mirrors-in-xrcf-4.jpg?resize=300,200 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Ball Aerospace lead optical test engineer Dave Chaney inspects six primary mirror segments of the James Webb Space Telescope prior to cryogenic testing in the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong><em>Credits: NASA\/MSFC\/David Higginbotham<\/em><\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/offices\/setmo\/facilities\/xrcf\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/setmo\/facilities\/xrcf\/x-ray-cryogenic-facility-additional-info\/\">X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF)<\/a> is an adaptable space environment simulation facility that has been enabling technology development and pre-flight verification of space missions since 1991. As the Agency\u2019s premier cryogenic optical test facility, the XRCF enables the development and pre-flight evaluation of large direct-incidence telescope mirrors and structures in relevant thermal environments. Most recently, the facility hosted development and verification activities for the James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the world\u2019s largest X-ray optical test facility, the XRCF also enables development, performance, and calibration testing of grazing-incidence X-ray optics, detectors and telescopes. Technology evaluation and readiness demonstrations have been performed on advanced X-ray mirrors, composite cryogenic structures, advanced video guidance systems, solar thermal propulsion inflatable structures, and advanced ultraviolet-optical-infrared mirrors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nasasitebuilder.nasawestprime.com\/xrcf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2018\/02\/XRCF-Handbook-Baseline-2016.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>XRCF Testing Labs<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4-Foot Cryo Chamber<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to its large vacuum chamber, this facility has a smaller cryogenic optical testing chamber. The helium-cooled test volume in the small chamber is a horizontal cylinder 40 inches in diameter and 88 inches deep. This chamber achieves test pressures and temperatures comparable to those of the large chamber in approximately one-tenth the time. It uses control and data acquisition systems similar to those of the larger chamber, and accommodates the same interferometer systems. More than 30 cryogenic test operations have been completed in the small chamber since it was commissioned in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4-Foot Preconditioning Chamber<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardware pre-conditioning takes place in a 4-foot wide by 8-foot long horizontal cylinder<br>equipped with lamps and a cold plate. This chamber is used for time and temperature bake-outs up to 300\u00b0F to ensure contamination control requirements can be satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Containment Evaluation and Monitoring Chamber<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Control and monitoring of vacuum system cleanliness is critical for facility operations. Controls in this chamber include preconditioning hardware, material evaluation\/testing, use of an LN2 getter panel, and controlled repress rates. Monitoring in a vacuum environment can include active or passive plates or wafers. Portable particle counters for non-vacuum applications are also available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Clean Rooms<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>XRCF clean rooms provide temperature, humidity, pressure, and particle control. Critical clean rooms include the Receiving Clean Room Class 10K (ISO 7), the Instrument Chamber Clean Room Class 1K (ISO 6), and the Equipment Clean-up Area Class 10K (ISO 7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/setmo\/facilities\/xrcf\/x-ray-cryogenic-facility-additional-info\/\">Read more about the X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) is an adaptable space environment simulation facility that has been enabling technology development and pre-flight verification of space missions since 1991. 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