The state-of-the-art has been advanced by CBI Na-Con Inc. (CBI) in the completion of a turnkey contract, providing a computer controlled high vacuum thermal facility at Rockwell International. The chamber is the first designed and constructed for production-line-type testing of satellites. Four computers networked together provide complete control of the vacuum process, data acquisition, and history logging. A truncated side hinged door provides easy access into the chamber without bridges or lifts and a structural, LN2 cooled flat floor provides a 25 ft W*30 ft L work space. The aluminum shrouds inside provide temperatures of less than 90K with a 40 kW concentrated heat load. The chamber is also designed so that it can be expanded to twice its present volume to accommodate a solar simulator. The unique features of this facility, including the computer integration of vacuum process equipment, specialized instrumentation and data acquisition equipment is discussed in this paper.


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    Title :

    Advanced turnkey computer controlled thermal vacuum facility


    Additional title:

    Fortschrittliche Moeglichkeiten mit schluesselfertigem, rechnergeregeltem thermischem Vakuumsystem


    Contributors:
    Cary, R.W. (author)


    Publication date :

    1986


    Size :

    4 Seiten



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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