NASA plans to shoot a projectile into Europa (one of the ice moons around Jupiter). The projectile will then send information about the ice to a satellite.

NASA designed this assembly to super chill ice.

They place one of our 12″ clear cylinders in the assembly. Then the assembly is put in a vacuum chamber.

They pump liquid nitrogen through the copper lines chilling the ice cylinder to -350F !!

They are testing different shape and weight projectiles.

The projectile is nestled into a sabot

The Sabot is placed into this air cannon which shoots it at over 700′ per second.

The sabot strikes the end of the cannon & the projectile continues.

A high speed camera records all of this

The -350f assembly is removed from the vacuum chamber

The crater formed by the projectile. At -350f ice becomes VERY hard.

Using a 3-D scanner, they scan it with 5 lasers from 6 angles.

Two of the individual scans

The computer merges all 30 laser scans into one 3-D model.

We supplied them with 12″ cylinders of clear ice frozen in Steel casings
We helped NASA with a previous experiment as well. They shot Ice Bullets at various elements of the space shuttle in an effort to return to flight after the trajedy.