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Editorial
2009 Space Cryogenics Workshopq
The 23rd Space Cryogenics Workshop (SCW) was held at the
Embassy Suites Hotel in Arcadia, California from June 23 to 25,
2009, and was organized and sponsored by NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and The Aerospace Corporation. Arcadia is a beautiful
city in close proximity to Pasadena which is the home of many
leading scientific and cultural institutions, including California
Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Lab and the
Norton Simon Museum of Art, etc. As has become customary in re-cent years, the workshop was held a week before the Cryogenics
Engineering Conference (Tucson, Arizona). The workshop brought
together scientists and engineers who are actively involved in
the field of cryogenics as it relates to space applications, where
acquaintances were renewed and new connections were made.
The event was well attended with over 109 participants from
around the world representing industry, academia, and govern-
ment. The technical program consisted of 39 papers, presented in
10 non-parallel sessions. The June 23rd Welcome Reception took
place at the Embassy Suites with catering by the hotel.
Following the welcoming address by Laurie Huget of the Cryo-
genic Society of America (CSA), the first day of Workshop began
with the first two sessions devoted to Cryogenic Space Missions,
including Astro-H, JWST, SPICA, SMILES, and Martian/Lunar mis-sions. The third session was on Space Cryogenic Components with
topics on energy storage units, sun shield design, integrated self-
pumped loop, and applications of high temperature superconduc-
tors in space. This was followed by the session on the Cryogenic
Test Facility with the discussion of reduced gravity simulation
and characterization of superconducting components. The concept
of a Cryogenic Orbital Testbed was also introduced. The workshop
on June 24th was concluded with sessions on Cryostats and Instru-
ments. A banquet was held in the hotel catered by Capistranos.
During the banquet, the Best Paper Award from SCW2007 was pre-
sented by Leon Hastings to A. Ravex and P. Crespi on their paper,
Air Liquide Space Cryocooler Systems.
On the next day, the first two sessions were devoted to cryoco-
olers, with invited papers from Ball, Creare, Lockheed Martin, Nor-throp Grumman and Raytheon addressing the capability of their
space coolers. This was followed by discussions on Adiabatic
Demagnetization Refrigerators, Dilution Refrigerators, Thermoa-
coustic Coolers and Pulse Tubes. The second day of workshop con-
cluded with the session on propulsion systems.
In this workshop, two papers were presented in poster formats,
one on a magneto-resistive heat switch and the other on a tabletop
cryogenic chamber for UV photo-doping. Attendants appeared to
enjoy having informal technical exchange with the authors during
the breaks. With 109 participants, the 23rd Space Cryogenic Work-shop has the largest attendance in recent history of the Workshop.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following people for significant con-
tributions to the success of the 2009 SCW: Laurie Huget of the
Cryogenic Society of America; former SCW chairs, especially Leon
Hastings and Peter Shirron; Steven Van Sciver, American editor of
Cryogenics; and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The Aerospace
Corporation.
Sidney W. Yuan
The Aerospace Corporation,
Thermal Management Technology,El Segundo, CA 90245,
United States
Tel.: +1 310 336 1790; fax: +1 310 336 2270
E-mail address: [email protected]
Jose Rodriquez
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 157-316,
4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099,
United States
Tel.: +1 818 354-0799
E-mail address: [email protected]
0011-2275/$ - see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.doi:10.1016/j.cryogenics.2010.03.003
q 2009 Space Cryogenics Workshop, June 2325, 2009, Arcadia, California, Hosted
by The Aerospace Corp. and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA.
Cryogenics 50 (2010) 487
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