Test Chamber for NASA's New Cosmic Mapmaker Makes Dramatic Entrance - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8/16/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
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The SPHEREx mission will create a 3D map of the entire sky. Its cutting-edge instruments require a custom-built chamber to make sure they’ll be ready to operate in space.
A number of factors can influence the focus position of our instrument as it gets down to its operating temperature, said Phil Korngut, the SPHEREx instrument scientist and a researcher at Caltech. I… [+1137 chars]
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