Thermal Vacuum Bakeout Facility TVAC #2
Ensuring proper vacuum bakeout of flight hardware is increasingly important to mission success. Over the past two years the demand for thermal vacuum bakeout and thermal cycling tests in our main TVAC #1 chamber have increased to near capacity. As such we will be commissioning a new, additional thermal vacuum chamber TVAC #2 for the first quarter of 2018.
We are fitting a magnetically levitated turbomolecular pump and scroll backing pump to provide an oil free pumping system for the chamber, identical to TVAC #1. The chamber will operate in much the same way as TVAC #1 although it will be slightly more flexible in terms of load configurations for thermal vacuum bakeouts. TVAC #2 will also be capable of a higher maximum temperature.
The chamber will also be configurable for more advanced space simulation testing and thermal cycling. Please follow our News section for updates on the progress of this new chamber.
We are fitting a magnetically levitated turbomolecular pump and scroll backing pump to provide an oil free pumping system for the chamber, identical to TVAC #1. The chamber will operate in much the same way as TVAC #1 although it will be slightly more flexible in terms of load configurations for thermal vacuum bakeouts. TVAC #2 will also be capable of a higher maximum temperature.
The chamber will also be configurable for more advanced space simulation testing and thermal cycling. Please follow our News section for updates on the progress of this new chamber.
