MSSL have comprehensive thermal vacuum and cryogenic vacuum facilites used for qualification and acceptance testing of flight hardware.
The MSSL vacuum bakeout facility is a stainless steel construction chamber with oil free vacuum pumping systems. The bake out chamber has both radiative and conductive heating elements to ensure even heating of hardware in the vacuum volume.
Specification
Dimensions:Ìý390 mm (Dia) x 750mm (H)
Max temperature: 150°C
Base Vacuum pressure:Ìý5 x 10-7Ìý³¾µþ²¹°ù
Temperature control accuracy:Ìý± 2°C
# of temperature sensors:Ìý4 chamber + 2 shroud
Temperature ramp rate:Ìý0.10 to 5 °C per minuteÌý
Temperature logging:ÌýYes, 8 channel plus vacuum pressure
Turbo pump:ÌýSeiko Seiki STP400 MagLev
Backing pump:ÌýScroll pump
Vent gas:ÌýZero Grade Nitrogen (0.5 micron filtered)
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Outgassing monitoring
RGA:Ìý1 to 200 AMU, MKS Spectra Microvision pl