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High-tech refrigerator restores Hubble's vision: mission to install experimental cooling system succeeds. (Refrigeration Technology).
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News; 6/24/2002; Chien, Philip; 1126 words
; ... for development. Some of the funds to develop the NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) were supplied by the Department ... launches. One of the folks intimately involved with NICMOS, principal investigator Rodger Thompson, was very ... Hubble--took priority over installing the cooler for NICMOS. It was the lowest ...
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Peering into the universe: images from the Hubble space telescope.
Phi Kappa Phi Forum; 9/22/2002; 2338 words
; ... Infrared and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS ... of Colarado) Galaxy NGC 4013 In another NICMOS shot, the Hubble has pierced the dusty ... core. To the surprise of astronomers, NICMOS found a brilliant band-like structure ...
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Installing a refrigerator on the hubble telescope. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News; 4/1/2002; Chien, Philip; 918 words
; ... advantage of a refrigerator vs. an icebox is the NICMOS cooler's temperature can be adjusted for the best performance from the NICMOS detectors. Engineers estimate it will take about a month for the cryocooler to cool down NICMOS's detectors to their operating temperature and ... said, We anticipate seeing ...
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FROM BROOMFIELD TO DEEP SPACE CAMERA ON HISTORIC MISSION WAS DEVELOPED IN COLORADO.(Local)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 5/29/1998; Hubbard, Burt Verrengia, Joe; 382 words
; ... and Joe Verrengia Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers Snapping a photo of ... Corp. in Pasadena, Calif., used the NICMOS camera on the Hubble Space Telescope ... about 450 light-years from Earth. NICMOS was developed in Broomfield by Ball ... NASA scientist Dave Lacrone. The NICMOS was placed aboard the ...
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Hubble upgrades deliver sharper eye on the universe; new instruments are masterpieces of engineered structure, optics, electronics, semiconductors, and motion-control systems. (Hubble Space Telescope)
Design News; 5/5/1997; Gottschalk, Mark A.; 1291 words
; ... Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer ... technologies needed to bring the STIS, NICMOS, and SSR to life. There were people at ... 125 million STIS and the $105 million NICMOS. Innovations on the three; projects include ...
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Hubble repair brings brilliant new images
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/7/2002; FRANK D. ROYLANCE; 435 words
; ... Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, or NICMOS, have made it 30% to 40% more sensitive ... good science with it." One of the first NICMOS images taken since the repair shows a ... dust and glowing starlight. But because NICMOS is sensitive to infrared radiation, which ...
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NASA's high-tech refrigerator test on Glenn flight could save Hubble.
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News; 10/26/1998; Chien, Philip; 861 words
; ... plans to install on Hubble in May 2000. NICMOS, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object ... sensitive to visible and ultraviolet light. NICMOS was designed in the mid-1980s. The best ... filled with solid nitrogen. In effect, NICMOS is an ice chest and the nitrogen 'ice ...
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Sitings On The Internet
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/15/1996; 57 words
; NICMOS http://nicmosis.as. arizona.edu:8000/ NICMOS.html As everybody who's anybody knows, NICMOS is the Near Infra-Red Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer which will be sent hurtling into space where it will become a functioning part of the Hubble ...
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Seeing red: a cool revival of Hubble's infrared camera. (Science News This Week).(Brief Article)
Science News; 6/8/2002; Cowen, R.; 260 words
; ... Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) was brought back to life in March when ... times greater sensitivity than before, NICMOS is once again peering through dust-shrouded ... other detector on Hubble. The rejuvenated NICMOS teamed with Hubble's newly installed Advanced ...
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HUBBLE GOES TO THE LIMIT IN SEARCH OF FARTHEST GALAXIES
Regulatory Intelligence Data; 10/8/1998; INDSTRY GROUP 99; 559 words
; ... Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has uncovered the faintest galaxies ever ... needed to confirm the suspected distances. NICMOS has parted the dark curtain that previously ... older galaxies, he said. Prior to the NICMOS observation, a ten-day long exposure called ...
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