NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Systems Engineering, Design, Analysis, Manufacturing & Fabrication, Assembly, Integration & Testing.
In collaboration with GSFC, Newton provided complete product development support for HIRMES’ cryostat and optical bench mechanisms to demonstrate its capabilities and mature technology from SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.
NASA GSFC requested specialized engineering and product development services for HIRMES’ optical mechanisms, optical bench, electrical harnessing, and Cryostat development.
HIRMES is a NASA instrument that determines the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks into planetary systems. Its mission is to help scientists better understand the formation of planetary systems and their interactions with the environment.
Using detectors and optical technologies from SOFIA, HIRMES will capture the distribution of ice, vapor, and oxygen to provide information on the thermal evolution of protoplanetary disks.
Newton provided end-to-end product development services to design, analyze, fabricate, assemble, and test HIRMES to successfully demonstrate its capabilities from SOFIA. To accomplish this, Newton:
• Designed, fabricated, assembled, and tested ground support equipment for the HIRMES instrument.
• Developed and executed a plan for the fabrication and integration of mechanical fixtures on the optical bench.
• Efficiently routed electrical harnessing throughout the optical bench to their respective mechanisms.
• Assisted in the design, fabrication, and assembly of the Cryostat, as well as its inner shielding to provide access for all electrical harnessing.
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