Cryoconnection - Reaching into the cold
In This Issue:
•   Terminated hermetic feedthroughs added to capabilities
•   NSA/CSA Space 2005 Cryogenics Workshop
•   360 degree 'Faraday Cages'
•   HERSCHEL PM INSTALLATION FOR SOLAR SIMULATOR TEST
•   SCUBA 2 on target to deliver 1000 times improvement in sky mapping
Terminated hermetic feedthroughs added to capabilities
To compliment 'Stand Alone' hermetic connectors and our 'Wire Through' hermetic flanges Cryoconnect now adds terminated hermetic feedthroughs using low cost rectangular and circular connectors.

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360 degree 'Faraday Cages'
Meeting the increasing need to reduce mass and space as packaging densities increase Cryoconnect continues to develop it's range of ultra-low backshell encapsulations with 360 degree 'Faraday Cages'. Fully shielded and strain relieved solutions accommodating complex grounding schemes.

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NSA/CSA Space 2005 Cryogenics Workshop
The NSA/CSA Space 2005 Cryogenics Workshop in Colorado Springs was well attended with high levels of interest in Cryoconnect. Sessions focussed on:

Cryogenic Missions.
Exploration Research and Development.
Cryocooler Development and Testing.
Cooler and Support Technologies.
Cryogenic Processes and Technology.

Papers submitted for projects with Cryoconnect assemblies included:

Flight Acceptance of the 0.1K dilution Cooler for PLANCK HFI.
AIR LIQUIDE Advanced Technology Division
Design and Qualification 0f HERSCHEL Instrument Cooling Helium System.
AIR LIQUIDE Advanced Technology Division
Flight Acceptance Testing of the Two JPL Planck Sorption Coolers.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

HERSCHEL PM INSTALLATION FOR SOLAR SIMULATOR TEST
Preparations for the upcoming test of the Herschel payload module in the large solar simulator at ESTEC are well underway, with the installation of the module in the test facility

PLANCK QUALIFICATION MODEL
In addition the Planck Qualification Model is being tested at the Centre Spatial de LiËge, where it currently resides in the thermal vacuum chamber. http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=37956

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SCUBA 2 on target to deliver 1000 times improvement in sky mapping
SCUBA 2 is on target to be delivered to JCMT mid 2006. With all of the Cryoconnect harnesses delivered the integration and electronics testing is underway. SCUBA 2 seeks to capitalise on the success of SCUBA by providing the JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) community with a state-of-the-art, wide-field camera giving unprecedented sensitivity and imaging power.
With a much larger field-of-view and sky-background limited sensitivity, SCUBA 2 will map large areas of sky up to 1000 times faster than the current SCUBA camera. All areas of astronomy will benefit, from studies of our Solar System and surveys of protostellar complexes in the Milky Way, to answering key questions about the formation and evolution of galaxies in the early Universe.

With a diameter of 15m the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is the largest astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the submillimetre wavelength region of the spectrum. The JCMT is used to study our Solar System, interstellar dust and gas, and distant galaxies. It is situated close to the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, at an altitude of 4092m.

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