Ball Ball Aerospace Stirling Cycle Cooler Cooling Curve 1 Cooling data for the engineering model cooler. Cooling Curve 2 Cooling data for the prototype cooler. Cooling Curves for Supower M77 Cooler Phillips Cooler Testbed for magnetic bearings and clearance seals. Lockheed pulse tube minicoolers. References References to articles on coolers published by Goddard researchers.
Liquid helium continues to play a role in space cryogenics.
Other Hardware Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer A proposal for a satellite instrument which would map variations in the strength of Earth's gravitational field. A cryogenic thermometer which uses the variation in temperature of the penetration depth, one of the characteristics of a superconductor. The COBE satellite, designed and built at Goddard, gathered data on the Big Bang. COBE cooling system Description and schematic of COBE's liquid helium system. Code 552 is working on 2 instruments for that telescope.