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Completion of the Copper Cooling Block, also known as the heat sink, which will help keep the ice and dust samples cold.

This block will be cooled down prior to flight to approximately 50 K using liquid nitrogen.

Cooling will take approximately 1 hour and the block is expected to heat up to 150 K by the end of the flight.
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