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TES
Laser Electronics
Circuit Board. This Circuit Board goes into the
Integrated Electronics Module (IEM). |
TES
Focal Plane Optomechanical Assembly Engineering
Test Unit Parts. |
TES
Focal Plane
Optomechanical Assembly Primary Mirror in it's
mount. |
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Idler Roller Stators
and Drive Roller with internal
Thermal Blankets. |
Optical Bench, the
translator housing, and
the 180 K radiator
stack-up at Composite Optics. |
Completed EM
Cooler. |
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Cooler Mass Model,
with the Cold Finger Attached, Mounted on a
Vibration Fixture. |
Focal Plane Optomechanical
Unit
Buildup showing the inside Optics Mounts. |
Focal Plane Optomechanical
Unit
with the 65 K
shield on. |
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Partially Assembled
Optical Tables on the Instrument Cart. |
EM
Laser Head. |
TES
Focal Plane Optomechanical Assembly Engineering
Test Unit on the Shake Table being prepared for
Vibration Testing. |
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View of the TES
Instrument Model looking at the inside of
the Earth Shade, and through the 180 K
Radiator. |
Opto-mechanical Roof
Mirror (Part of the Interferometer) Mounted on
a Rotation Stage for Test of the Roof Angle. |
Opto-mechanical Model
TES
Retroreflector. |
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Opto-mechanical Model
TES Retroreflector. |
EM
Sine Drive Board.
This board goes into the IEM,
and provides the drive signal to the Interferometer
Motor
to keep the Translator moving at a constant rate
during data collection. |
The TES
Vacuum
Chamber being installed in the Observational Instruments
Laboratory |
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Translator Roller
Parts
in Breakout. |
Sensor and Heater
Installation - Take-up and Drive Stators. |
Idler Roller Assembly
(Roller and Stators). |
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Translator Stator
on
Translator Housing (fit-check). |
#7 Stator (-Z drive)
Heater and RTD Installation. |
#5 Stator (-Z take-up)
Heater Installation. |
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TES
Engineering Model (EM) Cooler in the Test
Vacuum Chamber at JPL
at the start of EM
Cooler Functional Test and Characterization. |
Engineering Model
(EM) Translator Roller Assembly Integration and
Test. |
Engineering Model
(EM)
Translator Roller Assembly Integration and Test. |
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Fit Check of the
Optical Table in the Vacuum Chamber. |
Translator Housing
on
the Turn Over Fixture inside the Clean Tent. |
Integration of the
Translator and Translator Roller Assemblies. |
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Partially Installed
Idler Rollers on the
Translator Housing. |
Engineering Model
(1A)
Detector Assembly: Focal Plane Module on the left
which mates to the Focal Plane Optomechanical
Assembly. The flex cable is shown in the middle.
The Preamplifier box is on the right.
The Preamplifier is mounted on the outside of
the 230 K shield. |
Engineering Model
(1A)
Detector Assembly: Close-up of the Detector Module. |
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Engineering Model
(1A) Detector Assembly:
Close-up of the Detector Module with the Cold
Stop removed. |
Engineering Model
(1A) Detector Assembly:
Close-up of the Preamplifier. |
Retroreflector Test
Set
Optics. |
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Engineering Model
(EM) Power Subsystem Electronics and Test
Hardware. |
Airborne Emission
Spectrometer (AES) Pre-Ship Check-out
and Data Collection: Working in the Uplooking
Mode. |
Airborne Emission
Spectrometer (AES) Pre-Ship Check-out and Data
Collection: Ozone Sonde ready for Launch to Capture
Correlative Data during the AES
Measurements. |
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Airborne Emission
Spectrometer (AES) Pre-Ship Check-out and Data
Collection: Sonde Balloon being readied for Launch. |
Interferometer Control
System Motor Fully
Cabled and ready for Integration. |
In-process Assembly
of
the Roller Stators on
the Translator Housing. |
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Translator Housing
Buildup. |
Translator Housing
Buildup. |
Translator Housing
Buildup. |
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The Diffraction
Grating
Assembly installed on the interferometer.
The Diffration Grating Assembly is a piece of
alignment tooling that
is permanently installed, and flies with the instrument. |
The instrument metrology
installed on
the optical benches, and awaiting the interferometer
after velocity testing. |
The EM
roof mirror installed in its mount
and ready for installation into the interferometer.
The wires coming from the roof mirror are from
thermocouples. |
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Wired Optical Bench
and translator |
Thermal Blanketed
TES
EM
Interferometer during blanket fit checks. |
IEM
w/ cooler and
electronics |
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Focal
Plane
Opto-Mechanical Assembly |
Focal
Plane
Opto-Mechanical Fit Check |
Structure
bakeout |
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Radiators
with looped
heat pipes |
Interferometer |
Flight
Thermal Shield |
