We will not be surprising anyone when we say the last few years have seen dramatic increases in some material prices, which we have tried to help absorb for our customers as much as we can. Similarly, the sharp increase in energy prices from 2021/22 have been felt in our test house work.

Our main chamber day rates and standard outgassing charges have not changed since 2017 and 2018 respectively but for 2023 we will be adding a 10% increase to both the chamber day rate and outgassing charges. Please be aware that we will honour currently quoted work at the old rate, but new quotes for the end of 2022 and going into the new year will be at this new rate.

For our solar simulators which can be a much longer lead time it has been a challenge to keep up with the material price changes, particularly for key components. In 2023 we will be conducting an overhaul of our solar simulator range in terms of pricing and models available, so if you would like a quote for a system please be aware there may be some delay while this is done.

As always, we are hugely appreciative of our customers both new and old and are thankful for your understanding.

We would like to thank all of our customers, old and new, for continuing to select our products and services in 2018 and we look forward to working with you in the future. From all of us at TS-Space Systems, we'd like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year for 2019!

Last day opening 2018: Friday December 21st
First day opening 2019: Wednesday January 2nd

We are pleased to announce that our second thermal vacuum test chamber, TVAC#2, is now fully tested and online. In the first week already we have managed to accommodate a last-minute test requirement for a customer and we are now pre-baking the chamber in preparation for a series of flight hardware bakeouts.

The chamber features:

• PID controlled thermal plate with resistive heating and liquid channels for cooling either by chiller circulator or LN2
• Cold trap with removable fascia for lab analysis if required
• QCM for bakeout monitoring 
• Residual Gas Analyser (Hiden Analytical)
• Standard 16 T-type thermocouple channels (more channels, or different TC types can be added with notice)
• Temperature, pressure, QCM and RGA all logged digitally
• Door seal and chamber wall fluid cooling lines for high temperature tests (>300°C)
• Scroll pump and magnetically levitated turbo molecular pump meaning a completely oil-free pumping system

We also have a multi-part shroud under manufacture which will use the same resistive heating and fluid line design as the thermal plate. This is scheduled to be installed towards the end of the year when we tend to have more downtime for our test house facilities.

​As a small company we are remarkably agile in terms of design, manufacture and installation of test equipment for our in-house test services. This allows us to quickly respond to our customer's test requirements by getting custom components machined and fitted. For our customers, this quick turn around can mean the difference between meeting or missing a deadline.