AEON's Large Thermal Vacuum Chamber is Ø1m x 1m (extendable to 3m in length on request) with nine ISO-KF50 ports and one ISO-K500 port. The chamber accommodates most form factors for satellite instruments and scientific payloads. Whole CubeSats may be baked-out, tested, calibrated, configured, and fully flight-tested before launch.
Specifications:
- Bakeout to ESA & NASA Standards
- Customisable stopping criteria (R-value variation / set time value)
- Design & supply of MGSE/OGSE/EGSE to facilitate bakeout
- Programmable thermal and pressure cycling
- Remote monitoring of all key parameters using our cloud dashboard
- Test report and data plots on completion (temperature, pressure, IUT temperature)
- Supply of raw data (chamber & IUT monitoring)
- TML/CVCM characterisation report
- Bakeout certificate of conformance
Hardware:
- Turbomolecular pump (up to 260l/s)
- Dry multi-stage roots pump (up to 14 m3/h)
- Inficon composite Pirani & cold-cathode vacuum gauge, with continuous monitoring from atmospheric to UHV Vacuum (1×10-9 mBar)
- Ultra-low loss Ø280mm optical feedthrough.
- Auto-isolation valves
Options:
- Dry N2 purge available
- Residual Gas Analyzer (RGA) available, 1-200 amu mass range & electron multiplier
- Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalance (TQCM) (with thermally matched reference crystal and regeneration cycling).
- MoC / PAC Plates with FTIR Analysis
- ISO Class 8 Cleanroom
- ISO Class 7 Cleanroom (on request)
- ISO Class 5 Cleanroom (on request)
- LN2 cold trap available (-192°C / 81K at Cold Trap)
- In-Chamber cold plate available with thermocouple monitoring
- Customisable IUT radiative heating (Up to 200°C / 473K)
- Customisable thermal cycling programs (+200 / -192°C) (473 / 81K)
- Customisable IUT cooling (< 20°C / 293K)
- Up to 12 temperature probes
More information can be found in our online brochure, alternatively please contact us
