Spacecrafts orbiting the earth are subject to very extreme conditions due to the high vacuum environment and sudden temperature changes and gradients.To ensure that space hardware lasts for its specified life time, thorough testing needs to be performed, so every decisive design factor that cannot be simulatedis mesuared. Telstar provides systems to conduct tests related with vacuum and temperature:
• Thermal Vacuum Tests for space hardware qualification and acceptance:
• Components and complete satellites need to go through a series of thermal cycling stress under vacuum in order to ensure they will function properly in real operating conditions.
• Thermal equilibrium testing for space simulation.
• Material Research and Qualification: outgassing effects need to be investigated due to the fact that outgassed material can affect the spacecraft itself or its instrumentation.
