Overview
Our heritage in cryogenics is vast and expanding. To make your tactical military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions last longer, our cryogenic liquid hydrogen storage tanks can give you more capability. We fuel high altitude long endurance (HALE) aircraft and provide cryogenic control, refueling, and maintenance systems.
To double the battery capacity of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), we’re developing an energy storage system for UUV’s at cryogenic temperatures. For infrared sensors on both military and civil space platforms, our high-capacity mechanical cryocoolers offer an alternative method for cooling at temperatures below 25 Kelvin for extended times.
BAE Systems provided the Cryogenic Telescope Assembly that helped the Spitzer Space Telescope continue to offer incredible infrared imagery well beyond its prime mission. We developed the cryocoolers for the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instruments aboard Landsat 8 and 9. BAE Systems also provided the cryostat designed to keep the instrument on NASA’s GUSTO mission cool during the entire length of the planned balloon flight to map the space between the stars.
Among our work on the James Webb Space Telescope, we proudly designed and built the cryogenic flight boxes. These 22 one-of-a kind cryogenic electronic flight boxes are responsible for aligning the mirror segments on orbit so that they function as one mirror. Each box operates between -405.6 degrees F. (30K) and room temperature to multiplex signals from the warm control electronics to one mirror actuator at a time.