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Vacuum Bakeout

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