Thermal Vacuum Chamber Testing
The most common applications of a thermal vacuum chamber tvc are related to the tests of satellite performance control of the thermal cycle and testing of components subsystems and complete satellites in a fully controlled environment.
Thermal vacuum chamber testing. Thermal vacuum testing has been employed since the beginning of the u s. Thermal bakeout is typically conducted prior to spaceflight to outgass components. What is a thermal vacuum chamber tvc the acs thermal vacuum chambers produced by angelantoni test technologies are equipment mainly used to simulate environmental space conditions. We use one control room two client rooms a 3 ton crane within a class 100 000 clean room.
The chamber performs at level of 155 db oaspl. 2 65 to 226 cubic feet. Our 45 x 35 x 40 foot 13 7 x 10 7 x 12 2 meter thermal vacuum chamber is able to simulate the extreme environment of space in both vacuum and cold with a shroud temperature liquid nitrogen capability of 320 195 c and a gaseous nitrogen range from 250 157 c to 250 f 121 c. Testing in a thermal vacuum chamber is a requirement for compliance with a variety of regulatory standards in the aerospace and defense industries.
Outgassing the release of. A thermal vacuum chamber is a vacuum chamber in which the radiative thermal environment is controlled. 70 c to 125 c 94 f to 257 f tolerance. The design is adaptable to meet your testing needs.
Thermal vacuum testing space simulation. Typically the thermal environment is achieved by passing liquids or fluids through thermal shrouds for cold temperatures or through the application of thermal lamps for high temperatures. Common uses of thermal vacuum chambers include for pre flight bakeout thermal cycling and component testing in the industry. Thermal vacuum or thermal vac testing when testing components such as thermal straps and complete thermal subsystems tsl has a custom thermal vacuum thermal vac chamber specifically designed for temperature and pressure control.
In addition to smaller tvac chambers nts los angeles designed and built and now maintains and operates a tv 25 25 feet long by 15 feet deep thermal vacuum test facility for client spaceflight hardware. Space program as a way of mitigating risk and preparing for the extreme temperatures encountered at orbit. Our largest thermal vacuum test chamber. A thermal vacuum test chamber with its door open at nasa s johnson space center.
Site level to 1 x 10 7 torr. Chamber e chamber e is a thermal vacuum chamber designed for relatively large gas loads at high vacuum. It is equipped with cold walls an on axis filtered xenon solar simulator and pumping systems suitable for trace contaminant sensitive tests.