Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)

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TES Component Mockups

Click Here to View Beam Splitter Mockup (Nylon and Al)

Click Here to View Partial Assembly Nylon and Al mockup

Click Here to View Partial Assembly Showing Beam Splitter Mounting

Click Here to View Beam Splitter Housing in Parts

Click Here to View Assembled Beam Splitter Housing Nylon and Aluminum MockUp

TES Instrument Hardware

Click Here to View TES Laser Electronics Circuit Board

Click Here to View TES Focal Plane Optomechanical Assembly Engineering Test Unit Parts

Click Here to View TES Focal Plane Optomechanical Assembly Primary Mirror

Click Here to View Idler Roller Stators and Drive Roller with Internal Thermal Blankets

Click Here to View Optical Bench, the Translator Housing, and the 180 K Radiator Stack-Up at Composite Optics

Click Here to View Completed EM Cooler

Click Here to View Cooler Mass Model, with the Cold Finger Attached, Mounted on a Vibration Fixture

Click Here to View Focal Plane Optomechanical Unit Build-up Showing the inside Optics Mounts

Click Here to View Focal Plane Optomechanical Unit with the 65 K Shield on

Click Here to View Partially Assembled Optical Tables on the Instrument Cart

Click Here to View TES Focal Plane Opto-Mechanical Assembly Engineering Test Unit on the Shake Table being prepared for Vibration Testing

Click Here to View TES Instrument Model Looking at the Inside of the Earth Shade, and through the 180 K Radiator

Click Here to View Opto-Mechanical Roof Mirror

Click Here to View Opto-Mechanical Model TES Retroreflector

Click Here to View Opto-Mechanical Model TES Retroreflector

Click Here to View EM Sine Drive Board

Click Here to View TES Vacuum Chamber Being Installed in the Observational Instruments Laboratory

Click Here to View Translator Roller Parts in Beakout

Click Here to View Sensor and Heater Installation

Click Here to View Idler Roller Assembly

Click Here to View Translator Stator on Translator Housing

Click Here to View #7 Stator (-Z drive) Heater and RTD Installation

Click Here to View #5 Stator (-Z takeup) Heater Installation

Click Here to View TES Engineering Model (EM) Cooler in the Test Vacuum Chamber at JPL at the start of EM Cooler Functional Test and Characterization

Click Here to View Engineering Model (EM) Translator Roller Assembly Integration and Test

Click Here to View Engineering Model (EM) Translator Roller Assembly Integration and Test

Click Here to View Fit Check of the Optical Table in the Vacuum Chamber

Click Here to View Translator Housing on the Turn Over Fixture Inside the Clean Tent

Click Here to View Integration of the Translator and Translator Roller Assemblies

Click Here to View Partially Installed Idler Rollers on the Translator Housing

Click Here to View Engineering Model (1A) Detector Assembly

Click Here to View Engineering Model (1A) Detector Assembly: Close-up of the Detector Module

Click Here to View Engineering Model (1A) Detector Assembly: Close-up of the Detector Module with the Cold Stop Removed

Click Here to View Engineering Model (1A) Detector Assembly: Close-up of the Preamplifier

Click Here to View Retroreflector Test Set Optics

Click Here to View Engineering Model (EM) Power Subsystem Electronics and Test Hardware

Click Here to View Airborne Emission Spectrometer (AES) Pre-Ship Check-Out and Data Collection: Working in the Uplooking Mode

Click Here to View Airborne Emission Spectrometer (AES) Pre-Ship Check-Out and Data Collection: Ozone Sonde Ready for Launch to Capture Correlative Data during the AES Measurements

Click Here to View Airborne Emission Spectrometer (AES) Pre-Ship Check-Out and Data Collection: Sonde Ballon Being Readied for Launch

Click Here to View Interferometer Control System Motor Fully Cabled and ready for Integration

Click Here to View Inprocess Assembly of the Roller Stators on the Translator Housing

Click Here to View Translator Housing Buildup

Click Here to View Translator Housing Buildup

Click Here to View Translator Housing Buildup

$Click Here to View the Diffraction Grating Assembly installed on the Interferometer$

Click Here to View the Instrument Metrology Installed on the Optical Benches, and Awaiting the Interferometer after Velocity Testing

Click Here to View the EM roof Mirror Installed in its Mount and Ready for Installation into the Interferometer

Click Here to View Wired Optical Bench and Translator

Click Here to View Thermal Blanketed TES EM Interferometer during Blanket Fit Checks

Click Here to View IEM with Cooler and Electronics

Click Here to View Focal Plane Opto-Mechanical Assembly

Click Here to View Focal Plane Opto-Mechanical Fit Check

Click Here to View Structure Bakeout

Click Here to View Radiators with Looped Heat Pipes

Click Here to View Interferometer

Click Here to View Flight Thermal Shield