Antarctic Plateau Interferometer Concept Study

Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Engineering, 2004-05

Liaison(s): Mark Swain, Gautam Vasisht
Advisor(s): Pat Little
Students(s): Daniel Roche (TL), Kristina Knepper, Michel Guillon, Eph Lanford, Val Olsen (S)

The NASA JPL Polar Clinic team developed a design to package the Antarctic Plateau Interferometer in containers for transport to Dome C, Antarctica and support it during operation. To aid in this design, the team built and deployed an instrument package on the journey from Tasmania to Dome C this year which took measurements of acceleration loads. An isolation design for the optics truss and optical table system is proposed based on this data.