Lockheed Martin Two-Stage Pulse Tube Cryocooler for GIFTS

Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center (LM-ATC) is developing the cryocooler system for the Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (GIFTS). This is a NASA New Millennium Program (NMP) Earth Observing-3 mission to demonstrate revolutionary science enabling technologies. One of the new technologies for future generation remote sensors is the two-stage pulse tube cryocooler.