Thermal Modeling Of The Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility

H. L. Gier; W. D. Taylor

doi:10.1117/12.936399

19 January 1984 Thermal Modeling Of The Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility

H. L. Gier, W. D. Taylor

Proceedings Volume 0430, Infrared Technology IX; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936399
Event: 27th Annual Technical Symposium, 1983, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is a cryogenically cooled telescope in the one-meter aperture class designed for sensing in the infrared from 2-200 pm. This facility is currently planned for multiple missions onboard the Space Shuttle with varying instrument complements. All components of the SIRTF within the field of view of the optics are cryogenically cooled. The baseline primary coolant is supercritical helium which is stored in an external tank and routed through the telescope-cooling the instruments, the optical components and the baffles. For detector cooling below 6K, small reservoirs of superfluid helium (Hell) are provided. The SIRTF was thermally modeled on the SINDA computer program both for steady state and transient solutions. The analysis shows that the baseline configuration has a large capacity for growth in cryogen requirements. A proportional controller model was developed for transient operations. The control system maintained the optics within all prescribed temperature limits except for certain combinations of transients involving a large step change in the power dissipation in the secondary mirror assembly and/or when the primary mirror was assumed to be constructed of quartz. The baseline SIRTF will perform the mission for which it was designed.

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H. L. Gier and W. D. Taylor "Thermal Modeling Of The Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility", Proc. SPIE 0430, Infrared Technology IX, (19 January 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936399

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