SmallSat Thermal Vacuum Chambers

Turnkey thermal vacuum chambers for smallsats and satellite components

While SmallSats have revolutionized the space industry with amazing capabilities in small form factors, breakthrough prices, and often in orbit redundancy, the need for rigorous environmental testing remains.

Dynavac has distilled its forty years of thermal vacuum testing into the SmallSatTVS line of turnkey chambers optimized to deliver Dynavac value, performance, reliability at an attractive price to the smallsat market.

Download the SmallSatTVS data sheet here and our line of CE-mark systems for the European market here

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Chamber

Cube chambers with 12, 24, and 36” internal dimensions
Cylindrical chambers available as option
CE-mark systems in 240, 420, and 1500 litre volumes
Full opening door
Standard array of user ports; custom port configurations available

Environmental

Base pressure <10^-6 Torr
Dry mechanical roughing pump and high vacuum turbomolecular pump
Thermally active platen
Temperature ranges of up to -180 to +150C by direct injection LN2 and Calrod heaters

Controls

Dynavac fully integrated control system
Operator interface through intuitive touchscreen display
PLC based chamber controls for fully interlocked and fail safe operation
Type T thermocouples available to user as an option

Options

Mechanical refrigeration
Thermal shroud
Cold plates and cold fingers
Data acquisition system

Highly configurable with standard options- or full customization

Resources

Space Simulation

SmallSat TVS Data sheet

The SmallSatTVS line of turnkey thermal vacuum systems are designed to deliver Dynavac perfomance and value in chamber sizes suitable of smallsat and cubesat testing.

Space Simulation

CE-Mark thermal vacuum chambers

Dynavac’s line of CE-mark thermal vacuum chambers cover the testing needs of European cubesat and smallsat companies. The systems are designed and manufactured in France, and supported by the extensive Weiss Technik field organization.