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We are go for auto sequence start
And we have a go for auto sequence start
In the next few moments, liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen
at -253 degrees Celsius
will be pumped at 1035 gallons per second.
Then ignited creating a force of 37 million horsepower
sending the temperature in the combustion chamber
to over 3000 degrees Celsius.
T minus 5
4
3
2
1
Booster ignition
and liftoff of Discovery.
Where do you find the know how to make that work?
New gateways for international science.
Here at the Kennedy Space Center Cryogenics test laboratory.
With Cryogenics, it’s all about energy.
Space exploration and space launch,
those are some very energy intensive endeavors.
The cryogenics touches on more than just space,
it touches on nearly all aspects of modern life.
Cryogenics keeps our food fresh, keeps us healthy.
Helps power our businesses and our homes.
Now and in the future.
It’s about energy management and economics.
At the vanguard of all this, is NASA’s cryogenics test lab.
We have two main ways of operating.
One is problem solving.
Short term, real problems in industry
and with the NASA missions.
And the second approach is our main mission
is long term research and development.
It is an interdisciplinary total system approach.
Involving testing insulation materials
under extreme temperatures and pressures
combined with problem solving
using material science and engineering.
Their work has led to many new developments in cryogenics.
Our layered composite installation is a revolutionary insulation
because it works not only at high vacuum very well,
but it also is the world’s best at soft vacuum.
Opening up a range of possibilities from
liquid hydrogen cars to high temperature
super conducting cables.
Polyimide foams for construction and transportation.
Pourable aerogels for liquid gas carriers
and super conducting cables.
We partnered with 3M to install this insulation system.
These and many other innovative insulation
are the products of thousands of tests
on hundreds of materials.
In the process of compiling a one of a kind database
of thermal conductivity measurements.
Though we can test all different materials.
Bolt field – where powder types that you pour in.
Clam shell molded shapes, panels.
This is a copper sleeve.
It is part of the Cryostat 100 system.
It’s the cold mass portion.
Cryostat 100 can measure a wide range
of temperature differences for cylindrical insulations.
It’s one of 5 unique custom designed cryostats
able to test material specimens as small as
75 millimeters in diameter.
To storage tanks, and pipe lines over 20 meters long
at a variety of temperatures
and pressures in actual use conditions.
We have some unique capabilities and expertise.
We are looking to partner with others
and to extend applications into transportation
and power industries
and practical problems in industry.
There is so much that can be done with energy efficiency.
Hello, I am Jim Nichols,
Licensing Manager here at the Kennedy Space Center.
For more information on utilizing our Cryogenics Laboratory,
or licensing one of our many available technologies,
please give us a call.