Check this out....for those overclockers out there :)
NICMOS was installed on Hubble in 1997 but broke down 23 months later when the solid nitrogen ice required to keep it cool evaporated.
In March, astronauts on the space shuttle installed a replacement cooling system that uses neon gas and high-speed mini-turbines to keep NICMOS at a frigid minus 333 degrees Fahrenheit. :shock:
The new cooling system is "a really big advance" that will be used on the next generation of space telescopes, Thompson said
damn...get some of that in ya pc. 8)