Hubble Space Telescope's Experimental Cryocooler

An experimental cryocooler that astronauts installed on the Hubble Space Telescope this month is working after suffering a temporary shutdown a few hours after it was started for the first time on Mar. 16. Turbomachinery in the new cooler for the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer...

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