Cooler for Space
Photograph
Cooler for Space
ca. 1980
Gelatin silver print
Image: 11 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (30.2 × 24.9 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0025
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on paper taped to verso and folded to recto BC: COOLER FOR SPACE -- Hughes Aircraft company senior scientist Dick Doody adjusts the \ cold cylinder of a "super cooler" that increases the thermal radiation sensitivity \ of infrared sensors used in space for applications such as defense and geological \ suveys. The cold cylinder, shown here, would house an infrared sensor and \ chill it to near absolute zero during operation. Hughes said its scientists have \ developed cooler components with a five-year life expectancy and doubled the cooler's \ capacity. Under contract to the U.S. air Force, Hughes' Electro-Optical and Data \ Systems Group, El Segundo, Calif., has been working to improve the efficiency and \ extend the unattended operating life of the cooler beyond five years by 1986. \ -0- \ From: Barbara Woike \ Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc. \ 380 Madison Avenue (212) 986-6100 \ New York, New York 10017 \ For: HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY \ Slug: COOLER FOR SPACE \ Neg. No.: 4S-26447 \ 52984
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
Printed on verso OA: THIS PAPER \ MANUFACTURED \ BY KODAK
