If you thought it was annoying to deice your car in the winter, then spare a thought for the engineers whose job it is to deice telescopes in space.
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is currently undergoing a deicing procedure to remove a few layers of water ice that are less than a nanometer thick but enough to impede the telescope’s highly accurate measurements.
Recommended Videos This sensitivity is why engineers can’t simply whack on Euclid’s heaters to melt the ice but rather have to approach the issue carefully. To tackle the issue, the team is finding out exactly where the ice is located and plotting how it will impact measurements in the future if it continues to accumulate. Then, they can try various approaches to heating, such as gradually increasing the temperature of the spacecraft as a whole or the more complex operation of heating up only certain parts of it.
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