Thermal Testing - Phenix TV Facility

The Phenix Facility is a thermal vacuum facility dedicated to small/ medium spacecrafts and subsystems. The facility consists of a cylindrical chamber with a movable box shaped shrouds and a movable preparation platform. The specific design enables a quicker throughput time: The movable platform/shroud enables preparation outside the chamber and quick facility loading, A ring interface and point interface provides flexibility in test adapter design, The independent controllable shrouds enable testing without extra IR rig (6 independent thermal channels).
In the upper part of the box shaped shrouds interfaces are available for supporting videogrammetry equipment and specific IR simulators to complement the independent controllable shrouds.

The main parameters of the Phenix thermal vacuum facility
are listed below:

Vacuum Pumping System: • Typical achievable vacuum • Lowest achieved vacuum System completely oil free		5.10-6mbar 3.10-7mbar

Shroud & Nitrogen Supply Equipment: • Temperature in LN2 mode • Gradient in LN2 mode • Heat Load in LN2 mode • Temperature in GN2 mode • Gradient in GN2 mode • Heat load in GN2 mode • Temperature transition in GN2 • Surface emissivity Facility can accommodate dedicated shrouds if required		< 100K +/- 5K 30kW 123K - 393K +/- 10K 3kW up to 10K/min 0.90

• Test volume (W x H x L) • Vacuum chamber volume		2.5 x 3 x 4.2m Ø 4.5m x 10m

Test article interface on the trolley: • IF Ring (same as LSS) • Bottom fixation points		Ø 870mm 4x in a square pattern of 1.8 m

Additional interface points: • Ceiling suspension points • Feedthroughs		4x in a rectangle pattern of 4m x 2.3 m Multiple flanges DN250 as LSS

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