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Ball Aerospace to Study Spacecraft Cooling Technology

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BOULDER, Colo., April 8 -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will participate in the study phase of the NASA Advanced Cryocooler Technology Development Program (ACTDP) contract to develop a 6 Kelvin cryocooler. The primary missions using ACTDP technologies include NASA's next-generation space telescope (NGST), terrestrial planet finder (TPF) and Constellation X (Con-X) missions. These large space observatories will investigate the structure and evolution of the universe and search for the origins of galaxies, stars, planets and life. All these missions need a device that can reliably cool...Read full article

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